Proton Imaging with Gridpix DetectorsΒΆ

This website contains the Master Thesis of Brent Huisman, for the Particle and Astroparticle Physics Master program of the University of Amsterdam. You can browse the thesis online, or download the following formats:

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This page was updated on Apr 21, 2016.

  • 1. Abstract
  • 2. Introduction
    • 2.1. Structure of this document
  • 3. From High Energy Physics to Medicine
    • 3.1. Types of Radiation in Medicine
    • 3.2. Particle Beams for Hadron Therapy
    • 3.3. Imaging and Computed Tomography
    • 3.4. Modalities in Medicine
  • 4. Hadron Imaging
    • 4.1. Nuclear Emulsion Film Detection
    • 4.2. Strip Detectors
    • 4.3. Strip Detectors and separate Calorimeter
    • 4.4. GEMs and Sampled Silicon Calorimeter
    • 4.5. Scattered Events Beam Reconstruction
    • 4.6. The Nikhef/KVI approach
  • 5. Improving the Setup
    • 5.1. Results from November and Overview
    • 5.2. Towards pCT
    • 5.3. Calorimeter
    • 5.4. Calorimeter Data Acquisition
    • 5.5. Trigger
    • 5.6. Conclusions
  • 6. Further Thoughts
    • 6.1. Tracking
    • 6.2. Calorimetry
    • 6.3. Trigger
    • 6.4. Acknowledgments
  • 7. References

Table Of Contents

  • 1. Abstract
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. From High Energy Physics to Medicine
  • 4. Hadron Imaging
  • 5. Improving the Setup
  • 6. Further Thoughts
  • 7. References

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