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