NDLI: Geant4 studies of the CNAO facility system for Hadrontherapy treatment of uveal melanoma

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rimoldi, A. Piersimoni, P. Pirola, M. Riccardi, C.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Rimoldi, A.; Piersimoni, P.; Pirola, M.; Riccardi, C.)
Abstract	The Italian National Centre of Hadrontherapy for Cancer Treatment (CNAO Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica) in Pavia, Italy, has started the treatment of selected cancers with the first patients in late 2011. In the coming months at CNAO plans are to activate a new dedicated treatment line for irradiation of uveal melanomas using the available active beam scan. The beam characteristics and the experimental setup should be tuned in order to reach the necessary precision required for such treatments. Collaboration between CNAO foundation, University of Pavia and INFN has started in 2011 to study the feasibility of these specialised treatments with the ai, of implementing a detailed simulation of the beam line and comparing the obtained simulation results with test measurements at CNAO. The goal is to optimise a new dedicated beam line and to find the best conditions for an optimal patient irradiation. The application studied in this paper describes the Geant4 toolkit simulation of the CNAO setup as well as a modelised human eye with a tumour inside. The Geant4 application could be also used to test possible treatment planning systems. Simulation results illustrate the possibility to adapt the CNAO standard transport beam line by optimizing the position of the isocentre and the addition of some passive elements to better shape the beam for this dedicated study.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	5
File Size	504555
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479905348
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829705
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-10-27
Publisher Place	South Korea
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Particle beams Collimators Radiation effects Protons Detectors Malignant tumors
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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