Project

European NoVel Imaging Systems for ION therapy

Acronym
ENVISION
Code
41W00109
Duration
01 February 2010 → 31 July 2014
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Multimedia processing
    • Biological system engineering
    • Signal processing
Keywords
hadron therapy PET single particle imaging
 
Project description

ENVISION attacks the problems both of on-line Dose Monitoring and of performing accurate Quality Assurance tests by developing novel imaging modalities that are related to the dose deposition and allow assessing the treated volume as well as deriving reliable indicators of the delivered dose. It concentrates on the detection of nuclear reaction products produced by the interaction of the beam with atomic nuclei of the tissue (positron emitting nuclides for ibPET, photons or light charged particles for ibSPAT).