The clinical translation of FLASH radiotherapy (RT) requires challenges related to dosimetry
and beam monitoring of ultra‐high dose rate (UHDR) beams to be addressed. Detectors …

Presented in two parts, this first comprehensive overview addresses all aspects of energetic
ion irradiation of polymers. Earlier publications and review articles concentrated on selected …

Introduction Pencil beam scanning technique used at CNAO requires beam characteristics
to be carefully assessed and periodically checked to guarantee patient safety. This study …

Within the last three decades, a lot of interest focused on the development of plastic
scintillators as new detectors for clinical applications for radiation therapy. During the period …

Plastic scintillation detectors (PSDs) have many advantages over other detectors in small
field dosimetry due to their high spatial resolution, excellent water equivalence and …

Purpose Proton beam dosimetry using bare plastic optical fibers has emerged as a simple
approach to proton beam dosimetry. The source of the signal in this method has been …

In proton therapy dosimetry, a fiber-optic radiation sensor incorporating a scintillator must
undergo complicated correction processes due to the quenching effect of the scintillator. To …

Purpose In this article, we evaluate a plastic scintillation detector system for quality
assurance in proton therapy using a BC‐408 plastic scintillator, a commercial camera, and a …

The goal of this work was to create a technique that could measure all possible spatial and
temporal delivery rates used in pencil-beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy. The proposed …

We present a scintillator-based detector able to measure the proton energy and the spatial
distribution with a relatively simple design. It has been designed and built at the Spanish …