• High Power Laser Science and Engineering
  • Vol. 12, Issue 2, 02000e17 (2024)
A. Corvino1,4, M. Reimold1,2,5, E. Beyreuther1,3, F.-E. Brack1..., F. Kroll1, J. Pawelke1,3, J. D. Schilz1, M. Schneider1,2,3, U. Schramm1,2, M. E. P. Umlandt1,2, K. Zeil1, T. Ziegler1,2 and J. Metzkes-Ng1,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
  • 2Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  • 3OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden – Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
  • 4Current affiliation: Institut Curie, Université PSL, CNRS UMR3347, Orsay, France
  • 5Current affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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    DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2024.1 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    A. Corvino, M. Reimold, E. Beyreuther, F.-E. Brack, F. Kroll, J. Pawelke, J. D. Schilz, M. Schneider, U. Schramm, M. E. P. Umlandt, K. Zeil, T. Ziegler, J. Metzkes-Ng, "miniSCIDOM: a scintillator-based tomograph for volumetric dose reconstruction of single laser-driven proton bunches," High Power Laser Sci. Eng. 12, 02000e17 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) enable the generation of intense and short proton bunches on a micrometre scale, thus offering new experimental capabilities to research fields such as ultra-high dose rate radiobiology or material analysis. Being spectrally broadband, laser-accelerated proton bunches allow for tailored volumetric dose deposition in a sample via single bunches to excite or probe specific sample properties. The rising number of such experiments indicates a need for diagnostics providing spatially resolved characterization of dose distributions with volumes of approximately 1 cm ${}^3$ for single proton bunches to allow for fast online feedback. Here we present the scintillator-based miniSCIDOM detector for online single-bunch tomographic reconstruction of dose distributions in volumes of up to approximately 1 cm ${}^3$ . The detector achieves a spatial resolution below 500 $\unicode{x3bc}$ m and a sensitivity of 100 mGy. The detector performance is tested at a proton therapy cyclotron and an LPA proton source. The experiments’ primary focus is the characterization of the scintillator’s ionization quenching behaviour.

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    A. Corvino, M. Reimold, E. Beyreuther, F.-E. Brack, F. Kroll, J. Pawelke, J. D. Schilz, M. Schneider, U. Schramm, M. E. P. Umlandt, K. Zeil, T. Ziegler, J. Metzkes-Ng, "miniSCIDOM: a scintillator-based tomograph for volumetric dose reconstruction of single laser-driven proton bunches," High Power Laser Sci. Eng. 12, 02000e17 (2024)
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