1st Edition
Introduction to Particle Therapy An Educational Handbook
Preamble by Eleanor Blakely and Manjit Dosanjh, Chapter 1: Introduction to Ion Beam Therapy by Oliver Jäkel, Chapter 2: Radiobiology by Christian P. Karger, Angelica Facoetti, and Joao Seco, Chapter 3: Accelerators for Particle Therapy by Elena Benedetto, Loïc Grevillot, Nadia Gambino, Mauro Pivi, Marco Pullia, Mariusz Sapinski, and Maurizio Vretenar, Chapter 4: Imaging for Particle Therapy by Alexander Pryanichnikov, Hugo Freitas, Joao Seco, George Dedes, Guillaume Landry, Marco Riboldi, Katia Parodi, Maria Francesca Spadea, Lennart Volz, and Reinhard Schulte, Chapter 5: Treatment Planning in Particle Therapy by Julia Bauer, Amit Ben Antony Bennan, Remo Cristoforetti, Stewart Mein, and Niklas Wahl, Chapter 6: Future Trends by Alexandra Charalampopoulou, Alexander Helm, Maurizio Vretenar, and Panagiota Foka
Biography
Dr. Panagiota (Yiota) Foka is a senior heavy-ion researcher at GSI delegated at CERN, since 2000, where she contributed to the preparation of ALICE experiment serving as deputy physics and data quality monitoring coordinator, member of the first physics task force, co-authored the first LHC publication. Since 2018 contributing to the Next Ion Medical Machine Study CERN group and related activities within EU-supported projects. Initiator and coordinator of the PTMC international educational project, developed in collaboration with CERN and DKFZ.
Prof. Joao Seco earned his PhD from the University of London’s Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital. After serving as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg in 2016, leading particle beam research. His work spans prompt gamma and particle imaging, FLASH, and SFRT. He is Chair of Medical Physics at Heidelberg University, chairs ESMPE, and serves on AAPM TG359.
Dr. Maurizio Vretenar is a senior accelerator physicist and project leader at CERN, that he joined in 1988 to work on design, construction, and operation of linear particle accelerators. He has been project leader for the construction of Linac4, the LHC’s new injector, and later coordinated a series of EU-supported projects for accelerator R&D. His recent work focuses on accelerators for societal applications, particularly for medical use, leading CERN’s Next Ion Medical Machine Study.
