Measurement of secondary particle production induced by particle therapy ion beams impinging on a PMMA target
- Toppi, M.
- Battistoni, G.
- Bellini, F.
- Collamati, F.
- De Lucia, E.
- Durante, M.
- Faccini, R.
- Frallicciardi, P. M.
- Marafini, M.
- Mattei, I.
- Morganti, S.
- Muraro, S.
- Paramatti, R.
- Patera, V.
- Pinci, D.
- Piersanti, L.
- Rucinski, A.
- Russomando, A.
- Sarti, A.
- Sciubba, A.
- Senzacqua, M.
- Solfaroli Camillocci, E.
- Traini, G.
- Voena, C.
DOIAbstract
Particle therapy is a technique that uses accelerated charged ions for cancer treatment and combines a high irradiation precision with a high biological effectiveness in killing tumor cells [1]. Informations about the secondary particles emitted in the interaction of an ion beam with the patient during a treatment can be of great interest in order to monitor the dose deposition. For this purpose an experiment at the HIT (Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center) beam facility has been performed in order to measure fluxes and emission profiles of secondary particles produced in the interaction of therapeutic beams with a PMMA target. In this contribution some preliminary results about the emission profiles and the energy spectra of the detected se...
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