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RIS citation export for TUPOA38: Real-Time Magnetic Electron Energy Spectrometer for Use With Medical Linear Acceletors

TY - CONF
AU - Maggi, P.E.
AU - Carver, R.L.
AU - Hogstrom, H.R.
AU - Matthews II, K.L.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Power, Maria
ED - Shiltsev, Vladimir
ED - White, Marion
TI - Real-Time Magnetic Electron Energy Spectrometer for Use With Medical Linear Acceletors
J2 - Proc. of NAPAC2016, Chicago, IL, USA, October 9-14, 2016
C1 - Chicago, IL, USA
T2 - North American Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 3
LA - english
AB - Accelerator characterization and quality assurance is an integral part of electron linear accelerator (linac) use in a medical setting. The current clinical method for radia-tion metrology of electron beams (dose on central axis versus depth in water) only provides a surrogate for the underlying performance of the accelerator and does not provide direct information about the electron energy spectrum. We have developed an easy to use real-time magnetic electron energy spectrometer for characterizing the electron beams of medical linacs. Our spectrometer uses a 0.57 T permanent magnet block as the dispersive element and scintillating fibers coupled to a CCD camera as the position sensitive detector. The goal is to have a device capable of 0.12 MeV energy resolution (which corresponds to a range shift of 0.5 mm) with a minimum readout rate of 1 Hz, over an energy range of 5 to 25 MeV. This work describes the real-time spectrometer system, the detector response model, and the spectrum unfolding method. Measured energy spectra from multi-ple electron beams from an Elekta Infinity Linac are presented.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 361
EP - 363
KW - ion
KW - electron
KW - linac
KW - detector
KW - real-time
DA - 2017/01
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-180-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOA38
UR - https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tupoa38.pdf
ER -