8th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors, Taipei, Taiwan

Development of a Head Scanner for Proton CT

8 Dec 2011, 09:30

20m

Activity Center (Academia Sinica)

ORAL Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences Applications in Space, Medical, Biology, Material Sciences

Speaker

Prof. Hartmut Sadrozinski (SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz)

Description

The UC Santa Cruz-Loma Linda U. pCT Collaboration is developing a new head scanner for proton CT, based on the experience of the existing prototype being used in the beam to optimize data reduction and reconstruction algorithms. The system consists of s two silicon telescopes which track the proton before and after the phantom/patient, and an energy detector which measures the residual energy We will show some of the data taken with the prototype scanner, and the describe the ongoing work on a scanner which will permit a 2 MHz proton rate.

Presentation materials

Slides

1208_Sadrozinski_pCT_HSTD8.pdf

1208_Sadrozinski_pCT_HSTD8.ppt