Speaker
Paulo Crespo
(LIP)
Description
Proton therapy (PT) treatments still offer space for improvement. This
is because the
positioning of the Bragg peak may still suffer from several dose
disturbing mechanisms such
as patient mispositioning and/or anatomical modifications occurring in
the course of
fractionated PT. Some examples will be covered, together with two
techniques aiming each
at the verification of each PT treatment: in-beam positron emission
tomography and
prompt gamma imaging, here simulated in the case of an orthogonal prompt
gamma ray
detection via a multi-slat collimator.
Author
Paulo Crespo
(LIP)
