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most citedA facility for radiation hardness studies based on a medical cyclotron

12 citations · 21 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.med-ph2026

Using a radiopharmaceutical production cyclotron for radiobiological research

Eva Kasanda, Jan Gruber, Pierluigi Casolaro +8

The Laboratory for High Energy Physics and the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern are establishing a pre-clinical proton therapy research facility at the Bern Universit…

physics.med-ph2026

Development of a Proton Therapy Research Beamline with FLASH and Minibeam Capabilities at the 18 MeV Bern Medical Cyclotron

Eva Kasanda, Lars Eggiman, Thierry Stammbach +10

Advanced radiotherapy approaches such as FLASH irradiation and spatially fractionated radiotherapy (SFRT) show potential to improve the therapeutic ratio, yet their biological mech…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

Beam Energy Measurement using a Bayesian Approach with the Stacked Foil Method

Alexander Gottstein, Lorenzo Mercolli, Eva Kasanda +7

We present a practical method to measure the energy of proton beams at a medical cyclotron using the stacked foil technique in combination with a Bayesian inference method. By meas…

hep-ex2024★ 6 cited

Amorphous silicon detectors for proton beam monitoring in FLASH radiotherapy

Nicolas Wyrsch, Luca Antognini, Christophe Ballif +7

Ultra-high dose rate radiation therapy (FLASH) based on proton irradiation is of major interest for cancer treatments but creates new challenges for dose monitoring. Amorphous hydr…

nucl-ex2023

Methodology for measuring photonuclear reaction cross sections with an electron accelerator based on Bayesian analysis

Saverio Braccini, Pierluigi Casolaro, Gaia Dellepiane +6

Accurate measurements of photonuclear reaction cross sections are crucial for a number of applications, including radiation shielding design, absorbed dose calculations, reactor ph…

physics.ins-det2022★ 12 cited

A facility for radiation hardness studies based on a medical cyclotron

John Anders, Saverio Braccini, Tommaso Stefano Carzaniga +13

The development of instrumentation for operation in high-radiation environments represents a challenge in various research fields, particularly in particle physics experiments and…

physics.ins-det2021★ 2 cited

Radiation-induced effects in glass windows for optical readout GEM-based detectors

A. Maia Oliveira, S. Braccini, P. Casolaro +5

In this paper we present irradiation measurements performed to select a transparent anode substrate that best meets the requirements of an optical readout for a novel detector, the…