Proton and carbon ion therapy is an emerging technique used for the treatment of solid cancers. The monitoring of the dose delivered during such treatments is still a matter of research. A possible technique exploits the information provided by single photon emission from nuclear decays induced by the irradiation. This paper reports the measurements of the spectrum and rate of such photons produced from the interaction of a 80 MeV/u fully stripped carbon ion beam at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN, Catania, with a Poly-methyl methacrylate target. The differential production rate for photons with energy E > 2 MeV and emitted at 90 degree is found to be dNγ/(dNCdΩ)=(2.92±0.19)×10−2sr−1.
@article{arxiv.1110.3736,
title = {Precise measurement of prompt photon emission for carbon ion therapy},
author = {C. Agodi and F. Bellini and G. A. P. Cirrone and F. Collamati and G. Cuttone and E. De Lucia and M. De Napoli and A. Di Domenico and R. Faccini and F. Ferroni and S. Fiore and P. Gauzzi and E. Iarocci and M. Marafini and I. Mattei and A. Paoloni and V. Patera and L. Piersanti and F. Romano and A. Sarti and A. Sciubba and C. Voena},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3736},
year = {2015}
}