Conveners
B09-Applications to medical and other fields
- Giuliana Rizzo
Future Radiation Detectors and Imaging Technologies have common requirements in different fields of application. The "ERDIT" network was formed in 2014 to explore the European research and development trends and to promote exchanges from different scientific fields and different countries. The talk will present the "ERDIT" network and related collaborative activities and review the current...
Detector concepts originally developed for vertex applications have been further developed to address the needs of different applications outside high-energy physics. A typical example is the MEDIPIX series of detectors. The original concept was based on the Omega3 readout chip. Over the years the technology has been further developed into the MEDIPXI2 chip with energy windowing and its...
Hadrontherapy represents a remarkable example of the interdisciplinary collaboration between nuclear physics and medicine. Proton and carbon ion beams are used in the clinical practice for external radiotherapy treatments achieving, for selected indications, promising and superior clinical results with respect to X-ray based radiotherapy. At the same time, the accurate dose delivery is more...
