Tese de mestrado integrado, Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Engenharia Clínica e Instrumentação Médica) Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2019There is real interest in installing in Portugal a proton therapy facility. Proton therapy has a the potential to spare healthy from unnecessary dose. This technology takes advantage of the existance of the Bragg Peak to be able to obtain a dose distribution closer to what is ideal. Nowadays, ionization chambers are considered the reference in dosimetry. Nevertheless, they offer a poor spatial resolution. Optical fibers, on the other hand, offer a good spatial resolution: with an optical fiber it is possible to achieve a spatial resolution of 2 mm, 1 mm, 0.5 mm or even 0.25 mm. When an ...