Conveners
Work Package 1
- Anna Subiel (National Physical Laboratory)
Review of beam parameters in FLASH Radio Therapy
The first main task of PTB within the UHDpulse project was to establish reference UHPDR electron beam. In this aim, the PTB research accelerator has been optimised to generate two 20 MeV reference beams which have been characterised along with the development of a Monte Carlo beam model enabling a third beam set-up for a total dose per pulse range from 0.1 Gy to 16 Gy per pulse. The second...
We will present our efforts to calibrate the METAS ICTs and the CHUV ACCT for ultra high dose per pulse electron beams using the PTB current generator. We will also show the appilcation of such a devices in the establishment of the Fricke primary and secondary standards
It has been shown that FLASH radiotherapy can significantly spare healthy tissues whilst still being at least as effective in curing cancer as radiotherapy at conventional dose rates. These properties promise reduced post-treatment complications, whilst improving patient access to proton beam radiotherapy and reducing costs. However, accurate dosimetry at UHDR is extremely complicated. The...
The generation of charged particle beams to ultra-high pulse dose rates (UHPDR) have been proposed for use within future applications, although dosimetry of these beams has proven to be technically challenging. Calorimetry techniques provide an arguably ideal solution but their application is not trivial due to the quasi-instantaneous and inhomogeneous dose deposition patterns. A first of its...
