Applications of Radiation Detectors to Society

Radiation detectors play an important role in radiotherapy imaging. In the field of particle therapy, radiation detectors are extensively used during various stages of patient treatment, including in-room dose delivery assessment. In this lecture, given at the Workshop on Advanced Radiation Detector and Instrumentation in Nuclear and Particle Physics, I discuss one type of available methods for in-room dose delivery assessment in proton and ion therapy: the non-invasive nuclear physics inspired imaging methods. In particular I will explain the underlying physics and I will highlight some ongoing technological developments, focusing on in-beam PET imaging.