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Particle therapy

Particle therapy

Optical imaging characterizes radioactive ion beams

27 Jun 2019 Tami Freeman
Ion beam images
Luminescence (a), Cerenkov (b) and PET (c) images of the 11C beam (top row) and the 15O beam (bottom row) in the PMMA phantom. (Courtesy H G Kang et al Phys. Med. Biol. 10.1088/1361-6560/ab1ccf)
Heavy ion therapy is a promising cancer treatment technique, with beams of heavy ions delivering sha

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