Research Area: FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata (a Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biologia e Medicina)
Research activities
Giancarlo Sportelli has more than fifteen years of research experience in medical physics, focusing on radiation detector technologies and their applications in nuclear medicine. Since 2008, he worked on in-beam PET monitoring in hadrontherapy, having a Marie Curie Fellowship in this field. He was member of the coordinating unit to the INSIDE project (PRIN-MIUR 2011) for the development of a PET monitoring system at the National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy in Pavia. In 2014, he was visiting researcher of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA), where he worked on the Monte Carlo simulation of proton beams. He participated in the TRIMAGE project (FP7-COOPERATION, 2015-2018) as a member of the coordinating unit to develop a multimodal brain PET/MRI/EEG imaging system. He was Co-PI and leader of WP3 (TOF-PET detector) and WP4 (FPGA-Based DAQ) of the EU H2020-funded ERA-NET UTOFPET project (2018-2021).
Recent publications
- Expansion and Light‐Sheet Microscopy for Nanoscale 3D Imaging [2024]
- Synthetic CT imaging for PET monitoring in proton therapy: a simulation study [2024]
- Using the gamma-index analysis for inter-fractional comparison of in-beam PET images for head-and-neck treatment monitoring in proton therapy: A Monte Carlo simulation study [2024]
- Analysis methods for in-beam PET images in proton therapy treatment verification: a comparison based on Monte Carlo simulations [2023]
- Calibration and performance assessment of the TOF-Wall detector of the FOOT experiment [2023]