| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 174, 2018
4th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD 2015)
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| Article Number | 01011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Applications | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817401011 | |
| Published online | 21 February 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817401011
A beam monitor based on MPGD detectors for hadron therapy
1
Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
2
INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
a e-mail: palma.altieri@ba.infn.it
b e-mail: giannicola.galetta@ba.infn.it
c e-mail: rosaria.intonti@ba.infn.it
d e-mail: salvatore.nuzzo@ba.infn.it
e e-mail: piet.verwilligen@ba.infn.it
Published online: 21 February 2018
Remarkable scientific and technological progress during the last years has led to the construction of accelerator based facilities dedicated to hadron therapy. This kind of technology requires precise and continuous control of position, intensity and shape of the ions or protons used to irradiate cancers. Patient safety, accelerator operation and dose delivery should be optimized by a real time monitoring of beam intensity and profile during the treatment, by using non-destructive, high spatial resolution detectors. In the framework of AMIDERHA (AMIDERHA - Enhanced Radiotherapy with HAdron) project funded by the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (Italian Ministry of Education and Research) the authors are studying and developing an innovative beam monitor based on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPDGs) characterized by a high spatial resolution and rate capability. The Monte Carlo simulation of the beam monitor prototype was carried out to optimize the geometrical set up and to predict the behavior of the detector. A first prototype has been constructed and successfully tested using 55Fe, 90Sr and also an X-ray tube. Preliminary results on both simulations and tests will be presented.
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