2022年9月1日
Advantages of using larger-diameter pinhole collimator for prompt X-ray imaging during irradiation with carbon ions
Journal of Instrumentation
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- 17
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- 9
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- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1088/1748-0221/17/09/P09006
Prompt secondary electron bremsstrahlung X-ray (prompt X-ray) imaging using a low-energy X-ray camera is a promising method for observing a beam shape from outside the subject. However, the images measured within short times suffer from statistical noise. Consequently, we performed prompt X-ray imaging with higher sensitivity using a larger-diameter pinhole collimator and compared the results with those of a conventional collimator. Prompt X-ray imaging was conducted during irradiation with pencil beams of 241.5-MeV/n carbon ions to a water phantom. A newly developed X-ray camera with a 4-mm diameter as well as conventional 1.5-mm-diameter pinhole collimators was used for the imaging in list mode, and we compared the prompt X-ray images, energy spectra, and time count rate curves between 1.5-mm-diameter and 4-mm-diameter pinhole collimators. The prompt X-ray images taken with the 4-mm-diameter pinhole collimators had a1/47 times higher sensitivity with 70 % lower offset fractions originating from the prompt gamma photons. Furthermore, the ranges were more precisely estimated with the 4-mm collimator than with the 1.5-mm collimator. The energy spectra showed less contamination by tungsten-characteristic X-rays for the 4-mm pinhole collimator. Even for images measured with 0.1-s intervals, the beam shapes and time count rate curves could be obtained with less statistical noise using the 4-mm-diameter pinhole collimators. The use of the 4-mm-diameter pinhole collimator attached to the X-ray camera had advantages for prompt X-ray imaging with high sensitivity and low background, enabling us to image the beams even with short-Time measurements.
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- DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/17/09/P09006
- eISSN : 1748-0221
- SCOPUS ID : 85138167344