| | 1 | '''Minutes''': |
| | 2 | * Discussion of MSci project admin |
| | 3 | * Literature review |
| | 4 | * Due 3rd October |
| | 5 | * Worth 15% |
| | 6 | * Reports are completed separately, but can collaborate |
| | 7 | * Safety hazard form |
| | 8 | * Due 10th October |
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| | 10 | * Updates on SmartPhantom progress from Ken |
| | 11 | * Made a start on winding lab - started with fishing line |
| | 12 | * Hopes that there will be a prototype made over summer |
| | 13 | * MM working on simulation of response of fibres |
| | 14 | * TM working on simulation of what beam does to tissue |
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| | 18 | * Reading material to start with for literature review |
| | 19 | * HT's PhD thesis |
| | 20 | * Publication on LhARA |
| | 21 | * TOPAS |
| | 22 | * What would we use TOPAS for? |
| | 23 | * [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30609382/] |
| | 24 | * Hadron therapy |
| | 25 | * Use treatment planning monte carlo simulations - target volume |
| | 26 | * How do people plan to do these measurements today |
| | 27 | * Protons excite nuclei -> emit photons MeV with ring of crystal photon |
| | 28 | * Think about the drawbacks |
| | 29 | * E.g. count enough photons - take time |
| | 30 | * By definition photons don't come from bragg peak bc no longer have energy |
| | 31 | * Alternatives: Proton tomography |
| | 32 | * Proposal for LhARA - scientific summary - bibliography |
| | 33 | * Valuable to understand how scintillating fibre |
| | 34 | * Why did we choose fibre? -> Density similar to water |
| | 35 | * Scintillating fibres |
| | 36 | * Why fibre vs other methods for detection (similar density to water so less perturbation) |
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| | 39 | * Role of VL and AML |
| | 40 | * Assume we have a plane by October |
| | 41 | * Get involved in irradiation - Birmingham (proton cyclotron) |
| | 42 | * Analysis of data |
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