Plastic scintillator based PET detector technique for proton therapy range monitoring : a Monte Carlo study
| Autor: | Antoni Rucinski, Jakub Baran, Paweł Moskal, M. Garbacz, M. Pawlik-Niedzwiecka |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Materials science positron emission tomography Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors particle beams Physics::Medical Physics Monte Carlo method scintillators Scintillator Imaging phantom 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Optics Proton therapy detectors Range (particle radiation) protons business.industry Detector equipment and supplies monitoring 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Physics::Accelerator Physics plastics business Beam (structure) |
| Popis: | Currently a positron emission tomography (PET) based on novel, cutting-edge technology is developed by the Jagiellonian-PET (J-PET) collaboration. In this contribution, the principle of plastic scintillator based detector system, J-PET and the investigation of its feasibility for proton beam therapy range monitoring will be presented. Results of Monte Carlo simulation studies aiming at the characterization of secondary radiation induced by a proton beam in a PMMA phantom and detected by the J-PET scanner will be shown. Accounting for detector acceptance and PET-gamma detection efficiency in the plastics the diagnostic J-PET scanner can acquire 1.7×10−5 PET-gammas per primary proton. The J-PET detector configurations and signal acquisition during and after the therapy is discussed. |
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