Development of a low-energy x-ray camera for the imaging of secondary electron bremsstrahlung x-ray emitted during proton irradiation for range estimation

• Published in: Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 62; no. 12; pp. 5006 - 5020
• Main Authors: Ando, Koki, Yamaguchi, Mitsutaka, Yamamoto, Seiichi, Toshito, Toshiyuki, Kawachi, Naoki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 21.06.2017
• Subjects: Electrons; low-energy x-ray camera; Monte Carlo Method; Phantoms, Imaging; proton irradiation; Protons; Radiography - instrumentation; range estimation; secondary electron bremsstrahlung x-ray; X-Rays

Imaging of secondary electron bremsstrahlung x-ray emitted during proton irradiation is a possible method for measurement of the proton beam distribution in phantom. However, it is not clear that the method is used for range estimation of protons. For this purpose, we developed a low-energy x-ray ca...