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Prompt Gamma Energy Integration : a new method for online-range verification in proton therapy with pulsed-beams

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We propose a method for prompt-gamma verification of proton range during particle therapy. This method, called Prompt-Gamma Energy Integration (PGEI), is based on the measurement of the total energy deposited in a set of detectors located around a patient. It is particularly suited in the case of high-instantaneous beam intensities, like for pulsed beams extracted from a synchro-cyclotron. GATE simulations show that millimetric range shifts can be measured at a beam-spot scale. The sensitivity is slightly degraded as compared to the Prompt-Gamma Peak Integration Method, for which Time-of-Flight can be employed to reduce the background in single-photon detection conditions at cyclotron accelerators. Experimentally, lead tungstate scintillators have shown to cope with the high instantaneous gamma count rates for PGEI at synchro-cyclotrons.
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hal-04589792 , version 1 (27-05-2024)

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Pierre Everaere, Denis Dauvergne, Marie-Laure Gallin-Martel, Joël Hérault, Ayoub Koudia, et al.. Prompt Gamma Energy Integration : a new method for online-range verification in proton therapy with pulsed-beams. Frontiers in Physics, 2024, 12, pp.1371015. ⟨10.3389/fphy.2024.1371015⟩. ⟨hal-04589792⟩
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