Therapy planning and dosimetry for the pion applicator at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN).
At the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research a 60 beam pion applicator for radiotherapy is under construction. The methods to produce homogeneous dose distributions in arbitrarily shaped volumes is presented, together with details on the activities in therapy planning and dosimetry in view of the use of the use of the applicator for patients.
D004601:Elementary Particles; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011882:Radiotherapy, High-Energy