Speaker
Mr
Marco Lavagno
(DE.TEC.TOR. SRL (a Torino University spin-off company))
Description
Keywords: beam monitors, hadrontherapy, multilayer ionization chamber
On October 2009 DE.TEC.TOR. s.r.l. (Devices & Technologies Torino) was founded as a spin-off company of University of Torino and it is in the process of becoming a spin-off of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).
The business of DE.TEC.TOR. is to produce beam delivery monitors (pixel and strip ionization chambers) to measure and verify position, shape and intensity of hadron beams. The devices are placed near-patient and they provides online measures during the treatment.
At now the company collaborates with INFN, Torino University, the National oncological hadrontherapy Centre CNAO in Pavia, Italy, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland and Centre de Protontherapie (CPO) in Orsay, France.
New products:
MLIC: a multilayer ionization chamber has been developed, in collaboration with PSI, to measure and verify proton beam Bragg peak curves with variable modulation of beam energy. MLIC detector consists of 128 parallel plate ionization chambers stacked in series and measured simultaneously. The total water equivalent depth is about 300 mm.
Beam Diagnostic Monitor: to verify inter-spill position and intensity of hadron beam. It is developed in collaboration with CNAO.
Primary authors
Mr
Giuseppe Pittà
(DE.TEC.TOR. SRL (a Torino University spin-off company))
Mr
Marco Lavagno
(DE.TEC.TOR. SRL (a Torino University spin-off company))
