The solid state active detectors, widely used for conventional radiotherapy, such as diamond detectors (DD) and diodes may be attractive tools also in dosimetry of therapeutic proton beams. Diodes are broadly applied in oncology clinics and routinely used for in-vivo dosimetry [1, 8]. These real-time detectors are rugged, relatively inexpensive and provide on-line readings, what allows for quic...

Silicon particle detectors are used in several applications and will clearly require better hardness against particle radiation in the future large scale experiments than can be provided today. To achieve this goal, more irradiation studies with defect generating bombarding particles are needed. Protons can be considered as important bombarding species, although neutrons and electrons are perha...

This work describes preliminary test studies with a dual-headed SPECT system that utilizes a new generation of silicon double-sided strip detectors (DSSDs) (Figure 1) with a 1-mm bulk thickness and larger active area (60 × 60 mm) as compared to standard gamma-ray silicon detectors. Furthermore, major improvements in the ASIC design make this detector very suitable for low-energy imaging of smal...

Background: Estimating dosimetric parameters for small fields under non-reference conditions leads to significant errors if done based on conventional protocols used for large fields in reference conditions. Hence, further correction factors have been introduced to take into account the influence of spectral quality changes when various detectors are used in non-reference conditions at differen...

The MICE experiment will provide the first measurement of ionisation cooling, a technique suitable for reducing the transverse emittance of a tertiary muon beam in a future neutrino factory accelerator facility. MICE is presently in the final stages of commissioning its beam line. The MICE luminosity monitor has proved an invaluable tool throughout this process, providing independent measuremen...

A new principle of on-line crook measurement for long size rolling stock while running is devised, instead of customary off line static measurement. Rolled steel beams and plates aretransferred on roller tables generally accompanied with the motion of traverse and rotation. Therefore, the following three measuring methodes are described. (1) For the case of both traverse and rotation are neglig...

Several projects are concentrating their efforts on opening the high energy neutrino window on the Universe with km-scale detectors. The detection principle relies on the observation, using photomultipliers, of the Cherenkov light emitted by charged leptons induced by neutrino interactions in the surrounding detector medium. In the Northern hemisphere, while the pioneering Baikal telescope, has...