Abstract: Microdosimetry is the study of the temporal and spatial distributions of absorbed energy in biological matter and is crucial for the deep understanding of radiation effects in human tissue, for example of a carbon ion beam used in cancer treatments. The GEMTEQ detector is based on two CERN technologies, a small triple Gas Electron Multiplier setup with about 9 cm3 active volume and a...
An advantageous radiation modality for treating cancer is hadron therapy, which at present uses protons and carbon ions. However, treatment with hadrons requires high spatial and dosimetric accuracy in order to achieve optimal dose delivery, which is in turn guaranteed by proper quality assurance (QA) procedures and tools. For this purpose, a promising tool is the LaGEMPix detector that...
