Expected proton signal sizes in the PRaVDA Range Telescope for proton Computed Tomography

Price, Tony, Esposito, Michela, Poludniowski, Gavin , Taylor, Jon, Waltham, Chris, Parker, David, Green, Stuart, Manolopoulos, Spyros, Allinson, Nigel, Anaxagoras, Thalis, Evans, Phil and Nieto-Camero, Jaime (2015) Expected proton signal sizes in the PRaVDA Range Telescope for proton Computed Tomography. Journal of Instrumentation, 10 . P05013. ISSN 1748-0221

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Abstract

Proton radiotherapy has demonstrated benefits in the treatment of certain cancers. Accurate measurements of the proton stopping powers in body tissues are required in order to fully optimise the delivery of such treaments. The PRaVDA Consortium is developing a novel, fully solid state device to measure these stopping powers. The PRaVDA Range Telescope (RT), uses a stack of 24 CMOS Active Pixel Sensors (APS) to measure the residual proton energy after the patient. We present here the ability of the CMOS sensors to detect changes in the signal sizes as the proton traverses the RT, compare the results with theory, and discuss the implications of these results on the reconstruction of proton tracks.

Keywords:Radiotherapy, Instrumentation for hadron therapy, Computerized Tomog- raphy (CT), Computed Radiography (CR), JCOpen
Subjects:F Physical Sciences > F350 Medical Physics
H Engineering > H690 Electronic and Electrical Engineering not elsewhere classified
Divisions:College of Science > School of Computer Science
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Deposited On:04 Jun 2015 11:14

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