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An Intraoperative Beta−Probe for Cancer Surgery

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Authors:
  1. Francesco Collamati

    1. National Laboratories of Frascati, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frascati, Italy

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Rome University Sapienza, Italy
  • Presents a new technique to improve the success of cancer surgery
  • Provides an in-depth introduction starting from the medical and physical foundations of the topic
  • Offers extensive comparisons between expectations and actual measurements
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction to Radioguided Surgery

    • Francesco Collamati
    Pages 1-18

  3. The FLUKA Monte Carlo Code

    • Francesco Collamati
    Pages 19-26

  4. Design and Tests of the Probe

    • Francesco Collamati
    Pages 27-51

  5. Medical Applications

    • Francesco Collamati
    Pages 53-84

  6. Evaluation of Probe Performances

    • Francesco Collamati
    Pages 85-96

  7. Conclusions

    • Francesco Collamati
    Pages 97-98

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 99-100
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About this book

This thesis focuses on a novel radio-guided surgery technique for complete tumor resections. It describes all aspects of the intraoperative probe, as well as testing and simulation of the novel technique. The presentation develops the technique from the initial idea to realistic feasibility studies that have been the subject of a press release of the American Society of Nuclear Medicine. Just a year after completing this work, the technique has now been tested for the first time on a meningioma patient, confirming all of the predictions made in this thesis.


 


Reviews

“The book can be interesting for all the people interested in radio-guided surgery, including not only physicians but also physicists, mathematicians, and technologists.” (Giuseppe Danilo Di Stasio and Luigi Mansi, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 45, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • National Laboratories of Frascati, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frascati, Italy

    Francesco Collamati

About the author

Francesco Collamati is a particle physicist, who, since his Bachelor’s degree, has studied medical applications of particle physics. In particular, he focusses on Hadron therapy and the development of possible dosimetric techniques for application during the treatments. In his PhD at the Physics Department of Rome University Sapienza, he studied the development of an innovative Radio Guided Surgery Technique exploiting beta minus decays. He now holds a fellowship at Frascati INFN National Laboratories working on “Optimization of Interaction Regions for the Future Circular Collider @Cern”.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Intraoperative Beta−Probe for Cancer Surgery

  • Authors: Francesco Collamati

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33699-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33698-5Published: 11 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81576-3Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33699-2Published: 02 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 100

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medical and Radiation Physics, Surgical Oncology, Particle and Nuclear Physics

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