Application of cone-shaped scintillation detector for quality assurance in pencil beam scanning proton therapy systems

Lingjing PAN; Xianbao GU; Yuanyuan WANG; Yangfan ZHANG; Xiaoming LU; Zhipeng LIU

doi:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2024.hjs.47.080501

NUCLEAR TECHNIQUES, Volume. 47, Issue 8, 080501(2024)

Application of cone-shaped scintillation detector for quality assurance in pencil beam scanning proton therapy systems

Lingjing PAN¹, Xianbao GU², Yuanyuan WANG¹, Yangfan ZHANG¹, Xiaoming LU^1,3, and Zhipeng LIU^1、*

¹Hefei Ion Medical Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of University of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China

²Anhui Environmental Radiation Supervision Station, Hefei 230071, China

³Ion Medical Research Institute, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China

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Category: NUCLEAR PHYSICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Received: Jan. 3, 2024

Accepted: --

Published Online: Sep. 23, 2024

The Author Email: LIU Zhipeng (刘志鹏)

DOI:10.11889/j.0253-3219.2024.hjs.47.080501

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