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Novel scintillation detector design and performance for proton radiography and computed tomography.

Abstract：

PURPOSE:Proton computed tomography (pCT) will enable accurate prediction of proton and ion range in a patient while providing the benefit of lower radiation exposure than in x-ray CT. The accuracy of the range prediction is essential for treatment planning in proton or ion therapy and depends upon the detector used to evaluate the water-equivalent path length (WEPL) of a proton passing through the object. A novel approach is presented for an inexpensive WEPL detector for pCT and proton radiography. METHODS:A novel multistage detector with an aperture of 10 × 37.5 cm was designed to optimize the accuracy of the WEPL measurements while simplifying detector construction and the performance requirements of its components. The design of the five-stage detector was optimized through simulations based on the geant4 detector simulation toolkit, and the fabricated prototype was calibrated in water-equivalent millimeters with 200 MeV protons in the research beam line of the clinical proton synchrotron at Loma Linda University Medical Center. A special polystyrene step phantom was designed and built to speed up and simplify the calibration procedure. The calibrated five-stage detector was tested in the 200 MeV proton beam as part of the pCT head scanner, using a water phantom and polystyrene slabs to verify the WEPL reconstruction accuracy. RESULTS:The beam-test results demonstrated excellent performance of the new detector, in good agreement with the simulation results. The WEPL measurement accuracy is about 3.0 mm per proton in the 0-260 mm WEPL range required for a pCT head scan with a 200 MeV proton beam. CONCLUSIONS:The new multistage design approach to WEPL measurements for proton CT and radiography has been prototyped and tested. The test results show that the design is competitive with much more expensive calorimeter and range-counter designs.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Bashkirov VA,Schulte RW,Hurley RF,Johnson RP,Sadrozinski HF,Zatserklyaniy A,Plautz T,Giacometti V

doi

10.1118/1.4939255

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-02-01 00:00:00

pages

664-74

issue

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

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Novel scintillation detector design and performance for proton radiography and computed tomography.