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Published on: February 6, 2019
Mini-TEPCs for radiation therapy
1Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Padova, via Marzolo 8, I-35100 Padua, Italy.
Abstract:
A mini-tissue-equivalent proportional-counter (TEPC) has been constructed to study the possibility to manufacture mini-counters without field-shaping tubes for radiation therapy. The mini-TEPC can be assembled with and without field-shaping tubes. It can be equipped with a mini-alpha source for a precise lineal energy calibration. After the positive conclusions of this study, a slim TEPC has been designed and constructed. The slim TEPC has an external diameter of only 2.7 mm. It has been tested with therapeutic proton beams and gamma ray sources.

