IPAC2022 - List of Authors (Silari, M.)

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THPOMS029	Testing the Properties of Beam-Dose Monitors for VHEE-FLASH Radiation Therapy	3018
	J.J. Bateman, P. Burrows, L.A. Dyks JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom R. Corsini, M. Dosanjh, W. Farabolini, A. Gerbershagen, N. Heracleous, P. Korysko, S. Morales Vigo, V. Rieker, B. Salvachúa, M. Silari, G. Zorloni CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland F. Murtas LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy
	Very High Energy Electrons (VHEE) of 50 - 250 MeV are an attractive choice for FLASH radiation therapy (RT). Before VHEE-FLASH RT can be considered for clinical use, a reliable dosimetric and beam monitoring system needs to be developed, able to measure the dose delivered to the patient in real-time and cut off the beam in the event of a machine fault to prevent overdosing the patient. Ionisation chambers are the standard monitors in conventional RT; however, their response saturates at the high dose rates required for FLASH. Therefore, a new dosimetry method is needed that can provide reliable measurements of the delivered dose in these conditions. Experiments using 200 MeV electrons were done at the CLEAR facility at CERN to investigate the properties of detectors such as diamond beam loss detectors, GEM foil detectors, and Timepix3 ASIC chips. From the tests, the GEM foil proved to be the most promising.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS029
About •	Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 12 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 June 2022
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Testing the Properties of Beam-Dose Monitors for VHEE-FLASH Radiation Therapy

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J.J. Bateman, P. Burrows, L.A. Dyks
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
R. Corsini, M. Dosanjh, W. Farabolini, A. Gerbershagen, N. Heracleous, P. Korysko, S. Morales Vigo, V. Rieker, B. Salvachúa, M. Silari, G. Zorloni
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
F. Murtas
LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy

Very High Energy Electrons (VHEE) of 50 - 250 MeV are an attractive choice for FLASH radiation therapy (RT). Before VHEE-FLASH RT can be considered for clinical use, a reliable dosimetric and beam monitoring system needs to be developed, able to measure the dose delivered to the patient in real-time and cut off the beam in the event of a machine fault to prevent overdosing the patient. Ionisation chambers are the standard monitors in conventional RT; however, their response saturates at the high dose rates required for FLASH. Therefore, a new dosimetry method is needed that can provide reliable measurements of the delivered dose in these conditions. Experiments using 200 MeV electrons were done at the CLEAR facility at CERN to investigate the properties of detectors such as diamond beam loss detectors, GEM foil detectors, and Timepix3 ASIC chips. From the tests, the GEM foil proved to be the most promising.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS029

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Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 12 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 16 June 2022

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)