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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas

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RADART - Dosimetry


// Instruments and methods for biomedical applications

Instrumentos e Métodos para Aplicações Biomédicas

The exposure to ionizing radiations can happen due to natural or human causes. The purpose of dosimetry is the measurement and control of the amount of radiation absorbed by a body when irradiated. Dosimetry finds application in the most varied fields: environment and public health, diagnosis and treatment facilities in hospitals (patients and clinical staff), manned and unmanned space missions, industrial facilities.

Over the last 20 years the interest in the use of protons for radiation therapy treatments has grown steadily. More recently facilities dedicated to proton therapy were created in a number of places in Europe. Protons have advantages over photons on what concerns tumor therapy, being particularly helpful for the treatment of deep-seated tumors located close to critical organs.
LIP has a long term expertise in photon and electron dosimetry. From accelerator simulation to dosimeter prototyping, the work in the field goes back more than two decades. The possibility of the installation of a proton therapy facility in Lisbon opens a window of opportunity for research in this area.

The group is divided into two thematic lines: clinical dosimetry, focusing on the use of plastic scintillators and optical fibers in the context of clinical dosimetry for particle therapy; and high-LET radiation microdosimetry, focusing on the development of radiation detectors able to measure energy deposition at sub-mm scales and on studies of radiation effects at the cell level


// Research Area
Física Experimental de Partículas com aceleradores
Contacts
Group Leader:  
Jorge Sampaio

jsampaio@lip.pt


 

  • Utility of realistic microscopy-based cell models in simulation studies of nanoparticle-enhanced photon radiotherapy
  • Author(s):  J. Antunes, C. I. G. Pinto, M. P. C. Campello, P. Santos, F. Mendes, A. Paulo, J. M. Sampaio
  • Submission:  2023-11-14, Acceptance:  2024-01-18, Publication:  
  • Reference:  Biomed. Phys. Eng. Express 10 025015   View publication

  • Calculations of photo-induced X-ray production cross-sections in the energy range 1-150 keV and average fluorescence yields for Zn, Cd and Hg
  • Author(s):  Sampaio, J. M.; Guerra, M.; Parente, F.; et al.
  • Submission:  , Acceptance:  , Publication:  2016-11-01
  • Reference:  Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables 111–112, 67-86  

  • Scintillating fiber optic dosimeters for breast and prostate brachytherapy
  • Author(s):  L.M. Moutinho, I.F. Castro, H. Freitas, J. Melo, P. Silva, A. Gonçalves, L. Peralta, P.J. Rachinhas, P.C.P.S. Simões, S. Pinto, A. Pereira, J.A.M. Santos, M. Costa , and J.F.C.A. Veloso
  • Publication:  2017-03-10
  • Reference:  Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XVII, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 10058, 100580C, 2017  

  • The investigation of K-shell fluorescence parameters of Zn–Fe alloys with different grain size and microstrain values
  • Author(s):  Kup Aylikci, N. Sampaio, J.M. Kahoul, A. Aylikci, V. Karahan, I.H. Guerra, M. Santos, J.P. Marques, J.P. Tiraşoğlu, E.
  • Submission:  , Acceptance:  , Publication:  2017-03-14
  • Reference:  X-Ray Spectrometry, 46 (4), pp. 242-251   View publication

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  • ANTS
  •  Anger camera-type detector simulation and experimental data processing tools.
  •     website


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António Paulo
Lisboa
Collaborator

Bianca Alves
Lisboa
Master student

Brígida Ferreira
Lisboa
Collaborator

Carina Coelho
Lisboa
PhD student

Carolina Miranda
Lisboa
Undergraduate student

Cristiana Rodrigues
Lisboa
PhD student

Daniel Galaviz
Lisboa
Researcher

Duarte Guerreiro
Lisboa
PhD student

Fábio do Carmo
Lisboa
Master student

Federico Herrera
Lisboa
Collaborator

Filipa Mendes
Lisboa
Collaborator

Gonçalo Ribeiro
Lisboa
PhD student

Joana Antunes
Lisboa
PhD student

Joana Leitão
Lisboa
PhD student

João Gentil
Lisboa
Researcher

João Seco
Lisboa
Collaborator

Jorge Sampaio
Lisboa
Researcher

José Figueiredo
Lisboa
Researcher

José Pires Marques
Lisboa
Researcher

Luis Peralta
Lisboa
Researcher

Mariana Brás
Lisboa
PhD student

Miguel Lopes
Lisboa
Master student

Miguel Molina-Hernández
Lisboa
PhD student

Pamela Teubig
Lisboa
Researcher

Patrícia Gonçalves
Lisboa
Researcher

Yolanda Prezado
Lisboa
Collaborator

 
 

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