Study of an in-beam PET system for the Italian Hadrontherapy facility

por Paola Solevi (ETH Zürich)

jueves 3 abr. 2008 10:30 → 11:30 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

The continuous progress in oncological hadrontherapy and the increasing number of treatment facilities in the world, asks for improvements in quality assurance techniques for the control and monitoring of tumor treatments. Up to now, in-beam PET is the only accurate and in-vivo monitoring technique available. In this talk I will introduce the study of the in-beam PET system developed for CNAO (Italian Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy) by the TERA foundation, with special care to the application of Monte Carlo tools for the simulation of the Carbon ion interaction in matter and for the Tomograph optimization.