Microdosimetry for hadron therapy: A state of the art of detection technology

G Parisi, F Romano, G Schettino - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The interest in hadron therapy is growing fast thanks to the latest technological advances in
accelerators and delivery technologies, to the development of more and more efficient and …

Silicon 3D microdosimeters for advanced quality assurance in particle therapy

LT Tran, D Bolst, B James, V Pan, J Vohradsky… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Centre for Medical Radiation Physics introduced the concept of Silicon On Insulator
(SOI) microdosimeters with 3-Dimensional (3D) cylindrical sensitive volumes (SVs) …

Development of a new microdosimetric biological weighting function for the RBE10 assessment in case of the V79 cell line exposed to ions from 1H to 238U

A Parisi, T Sato, Y Matsuya, Y Kase… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
An improved biological weighting function (IBWF) is proposed to phenomenologically relate
microdosimetric lineal energy probability density distributions with the relative biological …

Monte Carlo implementation of new algorithms for the evaluation of averaged-dose and-track linear energy transfers in 62 MeV clinical proton beams

G Petringa, L Pandola, S Agosteo… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We exploited the power of the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit to study and validate new
approaches for the averaged linear energy transfer (LET) calculation in 62 MeV clinical …

[BUCH][B] Radiation sensors with 3D electrodes

C Da Vià, GF Dalla Betta, S Parker - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Written by the leading names in this field, this book introduces the technical properties,
design and fabrication details, measurement results, and applications of three-dimensional …

Microdosimetry performance of the first multi-arrays of 3D-cylindrical microdetectors

D Bachiller-Perea, M Zhang, C Fleta, D Quirion… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The present work reports on the microdosimetry measurements performed with the two first
multi-arrays of microdosimeters with the highest radiation sensitive surface covered so far …

On the measurement uncertainty of microdosimetric quantities using diamond and silicon microdosimeters in carbon‐ion beams

C Meouchi, S Barna, M Puchalska, LT Tran… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the response of two different types of solid‐
state microdosimeters, that is, silicon and diamond, and their uncertainties. A study of the …

scCVD diamond membrane based microdosimeter for hadron therapy

IA Zahradnik, MT Pomorski, L De Marzi… - … status solidi (a), 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hadron therapy is an innovative mode of radiotherapy (RT) for cancer treatment which
enables tumor cells to be more effectively destroyed than conventional RT using photons …

[HTML][HTML] 3D printed 2D range modulators preserve radiation quality on a microdosimetric scale in proton and carbon ion beams

S Barna, C Meouchi, AF Resch, G Magrin… - Radiotherapy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Particle therapy using pencil beam scanning (PBS) faces large uncertain-ties
related to ranges and target motion. One possibility to improve existing mitigation strategies …

A novel hybrid microdosimeter for radiation field characterization based on the tissue equivalent proportional counter detector and low gain avalanche detectors …

M Missiaggia, E Pierobon, M Castelluzzo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In microdosimetry, lineal energies y are calculated from energy depositions ϵ inside the
microdosimeter divided by the mean chord length, whose value is based on geometrical …