Expected proton signal sizes in the PRaVDA Range Telescope for proton Computed Tomography
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Expected proton signal sizes in the PRaVDA Range Telescope for proton Computed Tomography
Proton radiotherapy has demonstrated benefits in the treatment of certain cancers. Accurate measurements of the proton stopping powers in body tissues are required in order to fully optimise the delivery of such treaments. The PRaVDA Consortium is developing a novel, fully solid state device to measure these stopping powers. The PRaVDA Range Telescope (RT), uses a stack of 24 CMOS Active Pixel ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Instrumentation
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1748-0221
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/10/05/p05013