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JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/11/C11033
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Instrumentation for hadron therapy; Neutron detectors (cold, thermal, fast neutrons); Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)
资金
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M00791X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/M00791X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
It is widely understood that proton beam therapy has considerable clinical benefits over photon therapy for treating certain types of tumours. Protons deposit most of their energy in a very localised area, the so-called Bragg peak, sparing surrounding healthy tissue and critical organs from radiation. However, secondary neutrons and gamma rays are generated in the beam nozzle and inside the patient. Clinically, it is highly desirable to monitor the neutron dose the patient is exposed to, and this requires a neutron detector sensitive to high energies. EJ299-33 is a solid plastic scintillator capable of discriminating neutrons from gamma rays using pulse shape analysis of scintillation light. EJ299-33 has the potential to detect neutrons with energies up to 100 MeV and does not present leakage and flammability hazards generally associated with liquid scintillators. Experimental measurements with Co-60, Cs-137 and (AmBe)-Am-241 sources were performed to calibrate and optimise pulse shape discrimination parameters. We also performed experimental measurements at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in a 60 MeV passive scattered beam to detect high energy neutrons.
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