Guntram
Pausch

The research group In-vivo Dosimetry for New Types of Radiation deals with the exploration of novel methods and with the development of clinically applicable instruments for precisely assessing the range of proton beams in the patient’s body during radio-oncological treatments. Energetic protons of therapeutic beams are stopped in the body and deposit most of their kinetic energy in the last few millimeters of the beam track. The proton range (or track length) depends on the initial proton energy. This allows focusing the destructive radiation dose just on the tumor. However, the actual depth of the dose deposition maximum is hard to assess just because beam particles do, in contrast to hard X-rays, not leave the body.

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