Our offers
Together with our partner the National Physical Laboratory NPL, we offer and develop a range of dosimetric audits for scanned particle beams.
End-to-end-audit
Dosimetric end-to-end audit for scanned proton beams using dedicated homogeneous and anthropomorphic head&neck and pelvis phantoms, alanine and ionisation chambers traceable to the NPL and radiochromic films.
Reference audit
Reference dosimetry audit for scanned proton beams using ionisation chambers calibrated at the NPL and applying to IAEA TRS398 standards. More information at NPL.
Procedure
Audit Service in a
nutshell
Learn about the key facts of the Audit Service directly from the program manager Antonio Carlino, PhD.
Latest publications
2023
E2E testing based on alanine and IC dosimetry for a new combination of TCS/OIS & PBS proton gantry
P. Roisl, M. Schafasand, J. Hopfgartner, M. Stock, A. Carlino
ESTRO 2023 Conference, Vienna, Austria
2021
Results of an independent dosimetry audit for scanned proton beam therapy facilities
A. Carlino et al
Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 145 – 153
Development of the Service
2013
An innovative methodology for E2E tests using alanine Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) dosimetry was developed in collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
2016
An effective internal dosimetry auditing procedure for protons based E2E testing was implemented as the last step of the medical commissioning at the MedAustron Ion Therapy Center.
2017-2018
More than 500 alanine detectors have been irradiated over three years at MedAustron and most of the results were reported by Carlino et al. (2018)
Your team
Hugo Palmans, MSc, PhD
Principal Research Scientist at NPL
hugo.palmans@npl.co.uk +43 (0) 2622 / 26100 – 619
Univ.-Prof. DI Markus Stock, PhD
Medical Physics
markus.stock@medaustron.at +43 (0) 2622 / 26100 – 621
