A novel method to assess the incident angle and the LET of protons using a compact single-layer Timepix detector

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110349" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110349</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110349" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110349</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A novel method to assess the incident angle and the LET of protons using a compact single-layer Timepix detector

Original language description

Particle therapy can largely benefit from the detailed and wide-range spectrometric and directional characterization of energetic charged particles provided by compact Timepix detectors. Among several physical quantities that can be derived, the assessment of the linear energy transfer (LET) which is based on the deposited energy and particle's track length remains challenging. Due to the detector's pixel pitch, sensor thickness and charge sharing effect, an accurate estimation of the particle's incident angle and hence the track length, has been limited to particles with incident angles greater than 20 with respect to the normal of the sensor layer. This is critical for clinical beams which are highly directional, and measurements with radiation detectors are generally performed with sensitive volumes orthogonally placed with respect to the beam direction. In this work, we present a novel method in which we exploit the morphological cluster parameters to derive the proton's incident angle, thus enabling a precise directional reconstruction over the full field-of-view 2 pi (solid angle), and within 2 from the reference angles for Timepix detectors with 300 and 500 mu m thick Si sensors. As a consequence, the calculation of the track length was also improved, resulting in a more precise LET estimation. The experimental LET spectra and the frequency-averaged LET (LETF) were compared against Monte Carlo simulations using TOPAS for a wide range of proton energies (12 MeV-200 MeV) and incident angles (0-85 & DEG). An agreement within 12% was found between measured and simulated LETF. A comparison with LET values based on the PSTAR database also showed an agreement within 10%. We demonstrated the feasibility of a precise LET calculation and directional response with an improved angular resolution down to normal incidence using a single-layer Timepix detector, while avoiding the use of a stacked telescope array.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

ISSN

0969-806X

e-ISSN

1879-0895

Volume of the periodical

199

Issue of the periodical within the volume

OCT

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

110349

UT code for WoS article

000828304000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85145806383