The possibility of performing proton radiography by using the proton angular spread due to Coulomb multiple scattering was investigated, for the first time, with an emulsion film detector. Two different phantoms were irradiated with the therapeutic proton beam at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland. The first one is a simple polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) block having two different thicknesses (4 cm and 3 cm), and the second one is a PMMA cube with five aluminum rods embedded along a diagonal. Only one emulsion film was needed to perform the radiography, an important issue as the analysis of this kind of detector is time-consuming. Furthermore, the method showed an enhanced contrast when high atomic-number materials are traversed. This gives an advantage when compared to the proton range radiography.

Proton radiography by multiple Coulomb scattering with nuclear emulsion detectors / Braccini, Saverio; Carzaniga, Tommaso S.; Pisegna, Giulia; Paola Scampoli, And. - In: INSTRUMENTS. - ISSN 2410-390X. - 19:3(2019), pp. -6. [10.3390/instruments3010019]

Proton radiography by multiple Coulomb scattering with nuclear emulsion detectors

Giulia Pisegna
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2019

Abstract

The possibility of performing proton radiography by using the proton angular spread due to Coulomb multiple scattering was investigated, for the first time, with an emulsion film detector. Two different phantoms were irradiated with the therapeutic proton beam at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland. The first one is a simple polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) block having two different thicknesses (4 cm and 3 cm), and the second one is a PMMA cube with five aluminum rods embedded along a diagonal. Only one emulsion film was needed to perform the radiography, an important issue as the analysis of this kind of detector is time-consuming. Furthermore, the method showed an enhanced contrast when high atomic-number materials are traversed. This gives an advantage when compared to the proton range radiography.
2019
proton radiography; nuclear emulsion; instrumentation for hadron therapy
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Proton radiography by multiple Coulomb scattering with nuclear emulsion detectors / Braccini, Saverio; Carzaniga, Tommaso S.; Pisegna, Giulia; Paola Scampoli, And. - In: INSTRUMENTS. - ISSN 2410-390X. - 19:3(2019), pp. -6. [10.3390/instruments3010019]
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