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Prof. Giuseppe Battistoni (INFN)09/11/2020, 09:00
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Dr Marco Schwarz (APSS)09/11/2020, 09:10
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ROBERTO CATALANO (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)09/11/2020, 09:30
A fast and reliable system to measure transversal charged particles relative dose profiles is desirable in any hadrontherapy facility, being the basis for an accurate treatment quality assessment procedure. For this purpose, a system for the lateral dose profile reconstruction was developed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy);...
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Dr Vittoria D'Avino (National Institute for Nuclear Physics)09/11/2020, 09:40
Three batches (A, B, C) of thermoluminescent dosimeters TLDs-100 (LiF:Mg, Ti), provided by the team of the Radioactivity Laboratory (LaRa) of Physics Department of Federico II University of Naples, were characterized to Trento Proton Beam Line. Afterwards, the TLDs have been used to obtain the dose profile in a series of radiobiological experimental activities implemented in the context of the...
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Dr Sara Maria Carturan (LNL-INFN)09/11/2020, 09:50
The possibility to use polymer based scintillators for the detection of ionizing particles is of extreme interest in several fields, ranging from security purposes, where the revelation of neutrons and gammas is mandatory to hamper the traffic of nuclear weapons, workers radioprotection in sites as nuclear energy plants nuclear medicine laboratories and nuclear physics research facilities,...
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Beatrice Fraboni (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna)09/11/2020, 10:00
The development of detectors for protons and heavy particles is a long-lasting research topic not only for fundamental applications, but, more recently, for monitoring energy and flow of particles in ion beam applications. However, the most demanding application of ion beams, for which accurate measurements are increasingly needed, is hadron therapy of cancer. For this application there is an...
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Marta Missiaggia (University of Trento and TIFPA )09/11/2020, 10:10
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Gianluigi Silvestre (PG)09/11/2020, 10:45
The proton beam available through TIFPA at Adrontherapy Center in Trento has been used in the past years to characterize the Silicon Microstrip prototypes for the FOOT experiment.
The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment has a tracking subsystem, the MSD (Microstrip Silicon Detector), featuring three x-y coordinate measuring planes, each of which composed by two single-sided silicon...
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Yunsheng Dong (MI)09/11/2020, 10:55
The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment aims to perform systematic measurements of nuclear fragmentation cross sections in the energy range useful for particle therapy and space radioprotection. The experiment is designed to measure both projectile fragmentation of different nuclei (C, O, He) on C and CH targets, and also to extract target fragmentation cross sections in p-C and p-O...
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Michela Marafini (Centro Fermi)09/11/2020, 11:05
Organic scintillators are largely exploited in a wide range of detectors due to their capability to obtain very good time resolutions. Plastic scintillators are also relatively cheap, easy to manipulate and light (low density) with respect to conventional crystal scintillators. Traditionally they are exploited to perform very precise measurements ...
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Giacomo Traini (ROMA1)09/11/2020, 11:15
In Particle Therapy (PT) the nuclear interactions between the beam projectiles and the nuclei of the volume under treatment produce a large amount of secondary particles which can escape from the patient body and/or interact with the patient itself. In carbon ion therapy, the detection of the secondary protons resulting from the ion beam fragmentation can be exploited to spot possible range...
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Dr Alessandra Bisio (Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), University of Trento, Italy)09/11/2020, 11:30
Radiation therapy is the most-effective cytotoxic therapy available for the treatment of localized solid cancers. With the introduction of charged particle radiotherapy (proton therapy), the area of irradiated healthy tissue surrounding the tumor was further decreased. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of p53 in both X-rays and proton therapy treatments. p53 is a transcription...
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Dr Giacomo Casati (Ospedale Pediatrico Meyer)09/11/2020, 11:40
Although three decades of research have been trialled, the prognosis for patients with high-grade gliomas (HGGs) has not significantly changed.
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The aim of our project is the development of a new combined treatment that could sensitize HGGs to therapies, reducing side effects and improving quality of life of the patients.
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Dr Onorato Giada (University of Torino and Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (CE))09/11/2020, 11:50
In light of future human exploration of deep space, a fundamental need is to understand how terrestrial organisms may be affected by the peculiar conditions that characterize this extreme environment. Moreover, it will be crucial to dissect how the individual genetic structure may jeopardize or facilitate the adaptation to deep space, with specific regards to normal functioning of the nervous...
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Daria Boscolo (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)09/11/2020, 12:00
The radiosensitivity of biological systems is strongly affected by the system oxygenation. On the molecular level, this effect is considered to be related to the indirect damage and in particular to the effect of the OH• radicals. Several theories have been developed and among them the so called oxygen fixation hypothesis is so far the most accepted one. Recent studies open up another possible...
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Dr Matthias Würl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Physics, Department of Medical Physics)09/11/2020, 12:10
The SIRMIO (Small Animal Proton Irradiator for Research in Molecular Image-guided Radiation-Oncology) project [1] aims at developing a portable preclinical proton irradiator that can be installed at existing proton therapy centres. The clinical beam properties will be adapted to match requirements of small-animal irradiation using a dedicated energy degradation and focussing system [2]....
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Monica Scaringella (INFN Firenze)09/11/2020, 13:30
In hadron therapy a highly conformed irradiation field is delivered to the target by moving the beam and modulating its energy. Treatment plans require precisely measured patients’ Stopping Power (SP) maps, which are presently extracted from X-rays tomographies, so introducing unavoidable uncertainties. A direct measurement of the SP maps using protons (proton Computed Tomography - pCT), could...
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Dr Carlo Civinini (INFN-Firenze)09/11/2020, 13:40
PURPOSE
To present the GR5 project titled “XpCalib – Proton therapy X-ray CT calibration by proton tomography” recently financed by INFN.BACKGROUND
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In recent past, INFN research projects such as Prima, RDH and IRPT have studied the feasibility of proton Computed Tomography (pCT) as a tool to improve treatment accuracy in hadron therapy.
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Anna Vignati (TO)09/11/2020, 13:50
Within the MoVeIT project of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the University of Torino and the INFN are investigating Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD) for proton beam monitoring in order to replace ionization chambers currently in use in Hadrontherapy.
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Two devices are being developed based on UFSD: one for measuring the beam energy using Time-of-Flight (ToF) techniques,... -
Giorgio Cartechini (Università di Trento)09/11/2020, 14:00
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Federico Fausti (DE.TEC.TOR. S.r.l. Devices and Technologies Torino)09/11/2020, 14:10
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Dr Felix Horst (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)09/11/2020, 14:45
In the last years, our group has performed different radiation physics experiments from the fields of particle therapy and space radiation protection. This contribution will summarize briefly the conducted experiments and present the obtained results.
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One experiment investigated the entrance channel of proton Bragg curves. The shape of the first few centimetres of a proton depth dose profile... -
Christoph Schuy (GSI)09/11/2020, 14:55
Intense solar particle events (SPE) pose a significant risk to unsheltered astronauts and mission critical electronic systems. Over the duration of a typical SPE the whole-body dose in an unshielded scenario can reach more than 500 mGy and acute radiation effects like nausea and vomiting can occur. It is important to note that SPEs show large variations in dose depending on the specific energy...
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Luca Di Fino (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")09/11/2020, 15:05
LIDAL is a detector designed to study the radiation flux and energy spectra in Low Earth Orbit, it is onboard the International Space Station (ISS) since January 2020. It has been developed coupling a TOF system, based on fast plastic scintillators read by PMTs, with the ALTEA subsystem, a series of silicon detector telescopes which already operated on the ISS between 2006 and 2012 (Zaconte et...
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Giuseppe Dilillo (Università di Udine and INFN Trieste )09/11/2020, 15:15
We discuss the experimental procedure and the results of an irradiation campaign on GAGG:Ce (Cerium-doped Gadolinium Aluminium Gallium Garnet) scintillator crystals, carried out in the framework of the HERMES-TP/SP (High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites --- Technological and Scientific Pathfinder) mission at the Trento Proton Therapy Centre (TPTC) during January 2019. Samples from...
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Gianluigi Silvestre (PG)
The proton beam available through TIFPA at Adrontherapy Center in Trento has been used in the past years to characterize the Silicon Microstrip prototypes for the FOOT experiment.
The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment has a tracking subsystem, the MSD (Microstrip Silicon Detector), featuring three x-y coordinate measuring planes, each of which composed by two single sided silicon...
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