Characterization of an in-beam PET prototype for proton therapy with different target composition

Author

Attanasi, Francesca ; Belcari, Nicola ; Guerra, Alberto Del ; Moehrs, Sascha ; Rosso, Valeria ; Vecchio, Sara ; Cirrone, G.A.Pablo ; Cuttone, Giacomo ; Lojacono, Piero ; Romano, Francesco ; Lanconelli, Nico

Author_Institution

Department of Physics, University of Pisa and INFN Pisa, largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127, Italy

fYear

2008

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1442

Lastpage

1446

Abstract

Positron emission tomography is a valuable method for in situ and non invasive monitoring of the accuracy of the treatment in hadron therapy. It takes advantage of short lived β⁺- emitters spontaneously produced in the biological tissues during irradiation, by means of projectile and/or target nuclei fragmentations. Although β⁺- emitter production cross-sections and hadron stopping power exhibit a different dependence on the hadron energy, it is still possible to extract non invasively in vivo information about dose localization reconstructing the distribution of positron annihilation points.

Keywords

Biological tissues; Data mining; In vivo; Medical treatment; Monitoring; Positron emission tomography; Production; Projectiles; Protons; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dresden, Germany

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2714-7

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774686

Filename

4774686