Speaker
Mara Bruzzi
(INFN Firenze and University of Florence (IT))
Description
Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) is a new imaging method with a potential
for increasing accuracy of treatment planning and patient positioning in hadron therapy.
A pCT system based on a silicon tracker and a YAG:Ce calorimeter has been developed
within the PRIMA/RDH/IRPT INFN CSN5 collaboration.
The pCT prototype has been tested under 62MeV and 180MeV proton beams at respectively Laboratori Nazionali del Sud ( Catania, Italy ) and Svedberg Laboratory (Uppsala, Sweden).
Data analysis has been performed using algebraic iterative reconstruction algorithms.
In this talk, functional characteristics of the pCT system under test beam will be discussed; images of non homogeneous phantoms resulting from the pCT reconstruction will be shown and main results in term of spatial and density resolutions will be reviewed.
Primary author
Mara Bruzzi
(INFN Firenze and University of Florence (IT))
Co-authors
Carlo Civinini
(INFN, Firenze (IT))
Cinzia Talamonti
(INFN Firenze and University of Florence Italy)
Danilo Bonanno
(INFN Catania Italy)
Domenico Lo Presti
(University of Catania - INFN Catania)
Eleonora Vanzi
(Fisica Sanitaria, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Senese, Siena, Italy)
Francesco Romano
(Unknown)
Giacomo Cuttone
(LNS INFN Catania Italy)
Giorgia Maccioni
(INFN Cagliari and University of Sassari, Italy)
Massimo Carpinelli
(INFN Cagliari and University of Sassari, Italy)
Mirko Brianzi
(INFN, Firenze (IT))
Monica Scaringella
(INFN Firenze and University of Florence Italy)
Nunzio Randazzo
(INFN Catania Italy)
Pablo Cirrone
(LNS - INFN Catania Italy)
Stefania Pallotta
(INFN Firenze and University of Florence Italy)
Valeria Sipala
(INFN Cagliari and University of Sassari Italy)
