Conveners
Medical Physics Applications: Contributions MEDPHYS
- Carlo Civinini (FI)
- Giorgio Cartechini (Università di Trento)
- Federico Fausti ( DE.TEC.TOR. S.r.l. Devices and Technologies Torino)
- Marti Villareal Oscar (TO)
- Monica Scaringella (INFN - Firenze)
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...
PURPOSE
To present the GR5 project titled “XpCalib – Proton therapy X-ray CT calibration by proton tomography” recently financed by INFN.
BACKGROUND
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.
In this framework a pre-clinical prototype has...
