Feb 26 – 28, 2024
Trento
Europe/Rome timezone

Imaging methods for in-vivo Boron Neutron Capture Therapy

Feb 27, 2024, 4:55 PM
20m

Speaker

Nicola Ferrara (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is an innovative and highly selective treatment against cancer. Nowadays in-vivo dose measurements and monitoring are important issues to carry out such therapy in clinical environments. In this work, different imaging methods were tested for dosimetry and tumor monitoring in BNCT based on a Compton camera detector. A dedicated data-set was generated through Monte Carlo tools to study the imaging capabilities. First, the Maximum Likelihood Expectation Maximization iterative method was applied to study dosimetry tomography. As well, two methods based on morphological filtering and Convolutional Neural Networks respectively, were studied for tumor monitoring. The results of each method and clinical aspects such as dependence by boron concentration ratio in the image reconstruction, and the stretching effect along the detector position axis will be discussed during this talk.

Primary author

Dayron Ramos Lopez (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Co-authors

Gabriella Pugliese (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Giuseppe Iaselli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Nicola Amoroso (BA) Nicola Ferrara (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Dr Chunhui Gong (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China) Nicoletta Protti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Saverio Altieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Valeria Pascali (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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