Nuclear Data Section

CRP on Heavy charged-particle interaction data for radiotherapy

ANNOUNCEMENT

The final Research Coordination Meeting will be held in Heidelberg, Germany on 22-26 November 2010.

SUMMARY

The Co-ordinated Research Project on "Heavy charged-particle interaction data for radiotherapy" has been initiated to provide nuclear data that quantifies heavy charged-particle interactions with materials relevant to radiotherapy, from beam generation and collimation to the interaction of the beams with patients and detectors. The recommended data will be carefully checked against experimental charged-particle interaction data and computer-based Monte Carlo simulations.

OBJECTIVES

Overall Objective

Improve the quality of the heavy charged-particle interaction data for patient dose delivery calculations in radiotherapy.

Specific Research Objectives

Incorporate available experimental information on charged-particle interactions into evaluated nuclear data files or nuclear data parameterizations,
make available existing experimental information on charged-particle data interaction relevant to radiotherapy and recommend nuclear data parameterizations and evaluated data, which can be processed and used by Monte Carlo code developers and users worldwide,
define and make available recommended hadronic physics settings for Monte Carlo transport codes and applications.

ACTIVITIES and REPORTS

DURATION: 2006-2010; CRP CODE: F4.30.17

PARTICIPANTS: H.Paganetti (USA) - Chairman, B.V.Carlson (Brazil), A.Ferrari (CERN), O.Jäkel (Germany), A.Lomax (Switzerland), M.C.Morone (Italy), K.Niita (Japan), H.Palmans (UK), I.A.Pshenichnov (Germany), J.M.Quesada (Spain), N.Sobolevsky (Russia).

IAEA PROJECT OFFICER: R. Capote