Secondary radiation measurements for particle therapy applications: charged particles produced by⁴He and¹²C ion beams in a PMMA target at large angle

Proton and carbon ion beams are used in the clinical practice for external radiotherapy treatments achieving, for selected indications, promising and superior clinical results with respect to x-ray based radiotherapy. Other ions, like have recently been considered as projectiles in particle therapy centres and might represent a good compromise between the linear energy transfer and the radiobiological effectiveness of ion and proton beams,...