Exploring the Future of Particle Therapy with Monte Carlo Simulations

By Pablo Cirrone (Author) and Giada Petringa (Editor), this comprehensive book delves into the current challenges and unresolved issues in the field of particle therapy. It discusses how innovative Monte Carlo approaches can be employed to address these problems.

Multi-disciplinary Insights

Each chapter of the book is dedicated to a different sub-discipline, including:

• Multi-ion treatments
• Flash-radiotherapy
• Laser-accelerated beams
• Nanoparticles effects
• Binary reactions to enhance radiobiology
• Space-related issues

This book provides a comprehensive insight into this exciting field and the growing use of Monte Carlo in medical physics, making it an essential read for graduate students in medicine and medical physics, researchers, and clinical staff.

Key Features

This book:

• Explores the exciting and interdisciplinary topic of Monte Carlo in particle therapy and medicine.
• Addresses common challenges in the field.
• Edited by an authority on the subject, with chapter contributions from specialists.

About the Authors

Pablo Cirrone is a medical physicist and researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN, Italy, where he supports and coordinates various experimental groups. Dr. Cirrone is an expert in the use of proton and ion in radiation treatment and of absolute and relative dosimetry in electron, photon, and ion beam. He is an expert in the development and test of detectors for medical applications, of the production and use of laser-driven beams for medical and multidisciplinary applications and recipient of the Michael Gotein Award. He is active on many scientific committees and organizes national and international conferences.

Giada Petringa is a researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN, Italy. Dr. Petringa has a professional experience in the field of Monte Carlo simulations for medical applications, dosimetry, microdosimetry, and diagnostics with conventional and laser-driven proton beams. In 2019 she had a MSCA-IF-2019 (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions-Individual Fellowship) grant funded by the European Community in the framework of the H2020 program. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Physica Medica – European Journal of Medical. She organized more than fifteen international Geant4 Schools. She is an official member of the Geant4 code Collaboration at CERN since 2019. She is a code developer, and she collaborates to maintain two of the official examples of the code.

Publication Details

Publisher: CRC Press

Publication Date: January 19, 2024

Language: English

ISBN: 9780367897161, 9781000987614