Aim of this research
For a possible use in handrontherapy as beam monitors, GEMPIX detectors are the key-issue in these days. In hadrontherapy the energy deposition measurements in the media could be planned with this revolutiionary detector, very innovative. It has been designed within a collaboration between CERN and INFN and it is under test for different purposes. This detector consists of a triple GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) detector already known in literature and it is read without any silicon sensor (avoiding any aging effect when extensively used on beam facilities, and for this reason very attractive). The actual active area of this detector is of about 9 squared centimeters and it is already suitable for several applications in different fields as: radioactive waste, micro dosimetry, hadrontherapy, radiotherapy, radon monitor but also in other researches as for example Dark Matter! Wider or strip-shaped detectors of this kind are under design in the current days. Its characterization is performed at the CNAO Center during tests on the beam line under shooting of protons or carbn ions, followed by data analysis. A detailed simulation of this detector and a comparison between simulation and data is crucial for the complete understanding of this tool.

The tool used for the simulation is Geant4, in its latest version.

Publications Talks and Posters

Talks in Conferences

1. Geant4 simulation for a study of a possible use of carbon ion pencil beams for the treatment of ocular melanomas with the active scanning system at CNAO, poster alla 21st International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics - CHEP 2015, Okinawa, JP, 13 - 17 Aprile 2015.
2. Geant4 simulation for a study of a possible use of carbon ions pencil beam for the treatment of ocular melanomas with the active scanning system at CNAO Centre, talk ad Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications – ANIMMA 2105, Lisbona, Portogallo, 20 - 24 Aprile 2015.
3. Patient-specific treatment plan verification in Hadrontherapy: GEANT4 simulation of a GEM detector as beam monitor, poster al 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, California, USA, 31 Ottobre - 7 Novembre 2015.
4. GEMPix detector as beam monitor at CNAO Hadrontherapy Center: Geant4 simulation and measurements talk a CHEP 2016, San Francisco (U.S.A.), 10 - 14 Ottobre 2016.
5. Geant4 simulation and measurements of the GEMPix detector as beam monitor for carbon ions at CNAO talk (presentato da un co-autore del lavoro in mia sostituzione) a IEEE 2016, Strasburgo (Francia), 29 Ottobre - 5 Novembre 2016.

Oral Presentations

1. Il rivelatore GEMPix come monitor di fascio in adroterapia: simulazione GEANT4 e misure sperimentali, talk alla Riunione CNAO-CNR-INFN Cluster Tecnologico Lombardo Scienze della Vita, Pavia, 29 Febbraio 2016.

Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. P. Piersimoni, Development of a Monte Carlo simulation for the study of eye protontherapy at CNAO, in Scientifica Acta 7, No. 1, Ph 42-55 (2013).
2. Farina E., Piersimoni P., Riccardi C., Rimoldi A., Tamborini A., Ciocca M., Geant4 simulation for a study of a possible use of carbon ion pencil beams for the treatment of ocular melanomas with the active scanning system at CNAO, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 664 (2015) 072048, pp. 1-8, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/664/7/072048.
3. Farina E., Piersimoni P., Riccardi C., Rimoldi A., Tamborini A., Ciocca M. Geant4 simulation of clinical proton and carbon ion beams for the treatment of ocular melanomas with the full 3-D pencil beam scanning system, 2015 4th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), IEEE Publisher, pp.1-6, doi:10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465562.
4. Murtas F., Ciocca M., George S.P., Mirandola A., Rimoldi A., Silari M., Tamborini A. The GEMPix detector for energy deposition measurements in Hadrontherapy, Radiotherapy and Oncology, Vol. 118, p. S77 (February 2016) doi:10.1016/S0167-8140(16)30158-X.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

P. Piersimoni, A. Rimoldi, C. Riccardi, M. Pirola, S. Molinelli and M. Ciocca, Optimization of a general-purpose, actively scanned proton beamline for ocular treatments: Geant4 simulations, in JOURNAL OF APPLIED CLINICAL MEDICAL PHYSICS, Vol.16, N. 2, 2015