Secondary radiation measurements for particle therapy applications: prompt photons produced by ${}^4$He, ${}^{12}$C and ${}^{16}$O ion beams in a PMMA target

Ilaria Mattei, Francesco Collamati, Erika De Lucia +18

Charged particle beams are used in Particle Therapy (PT) to treat oncological patients due to their selective dose deposition in tissues and to their high biological effect in kill…