Diagnostics for Beam and Patient Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) project aims to train the next generation of radiotherapy specialists and to optimize cancer treatment using ion beams. The project has received four million Euro of funding to employ fifteen fellows who undertake research projects at leading research centers, universities and industry. A series of topical workshops and schools have been realized as part of the wider training for the OMA Fellows. The 2^nd OMA Topical Workshop on ‘Diagnostics for Beam and Patient Monitoring’ took place at CERN on 4–5 June 2018. It focused on the particular challenges and synergies in advanced imaging techniques, both for monitoring the beam used for treatment, as well as the patient. The workshop brought together around 50 experts in charged particle beam diagnostics, control system development, and patient imaging. Technologies for non-invasive beam imaging were presented, as well as innovations based on prompt gamma imaging and 4D patient monitoring.

This Special Issue collects original scientific contributions that were presented at the workshop on the latest developments of diagnostics for beam and patient imaging.

The OMA project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Number 675265.

Prof. Carsten Welsch
Dr. Christian Graeff
Dr. Monica Necchi
Dr. Julien Smeets
Prof. Joaquin Gomez Camacho
Guest Editors

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