Progress towards a semiconductor Compton camera for prompt gamma imaging during proton beam therapy for range and dose verification



Gutierrez, A, Baker, C, Boston, H ORCID: 0000-0003-0721-3458, Chung, S, Judson, DS, Kacperek, A, Le Crom, B, Moss, R, Royle, G, Speller, R
et al (show 1 more authors) (2018) Progress towards a semiconductor Compton camera for prompt gamma imaging during proton beam therapy for range and dose verification. .

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Abstract

The main objective of this work is to test a new semiconductor Compton camera for prompt gamma imaging. Our device is composed of three active layers: a Si(Li) detector as a scatterer and two high purity Germanium detectors as absorbers of high-energy gamma rays. We performed Monte Carlo simulations using the Geant4 toolkit to characterise the expected gamma field during proton beam therapy and have made experimental measurements of the gamma spectrum with a 60 MeV passive scattering beam irradiating a phantom. In this proceeding, we describe the status of the Compton camera and present the first preliminary measurements with radioactive sources and their corresponding reconstructed images.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Compton imaging, Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc), Instrumentation for hadron therapy
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 06 Feb 2019 09:52
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:05
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/C01036
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3032296