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