Speaker
Description
Due to the advantageous characteristics of charged particles' energy deposition
in matter, proton or $^{12}$C beams are used to treat deep-seated solid tumors.
Using these beams, the maximum of the dose is released to the tumor tissues at
the end of the beam range, in the Bragg peak region. In this process
nevertheless, fragmentation of both projectile and target nuclei can occur
in the nuclear interactions of the beam with the patient tissues and needs
to be carefully taken into account.
The goal of the FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment is to estimate
both target and beam fragmentation cross sections in the energy range of
interest for hadrotherapy, in order to provide new data for medical physicists
and radio-biologists and to improve the new generation of Treatment Planning Systems (TPS).
In this talk the project, the status of the different sub-systems construction and the plans
for the final assembling will be presented.
