Minutes: Meeting to discuss literature review

• Update on project - how far has it gotten?
  • Lots of hiccups
  • Colleagues in Munich are further along and have done experiments using small water phantom - 10cm
  • KL will send AML and VL papers
• Updated direction of project
  • SmartPhantom design is going to change -> make it smaller
  • Advantages of collaboration with Munich: Not constrained to sample dishes at MedAustron
  • Need to understand acoustic signal better
  • Josie has learnt Topas
  • VL and AML will be designing and building scintillating fibre & sticking in beam
  • Main thing is the ionacoustic and scintillating fibre
  • Old instrumentation is scrapped
  • How would we wind a smaller (1cm x 1cm) fibre plan

• Literature review advice from KL
  • Compare and contrast of other techniques people have used - MRI, prompt photon??, using proton tomography
  • Proton beam therapy - but not too much as it's well known
  • Understand differential equations of energy deposited through ionisation, spreading of beam through multiple scattering, deposited instantaneously, sound propagation differential equation (k-Wave does this - but should have better intuition without needing k-Wave e.g. write some code in Python)

Next steps:

• KL, JMcG, MM, AML, VL will meet at start of term, i.e., 3rd or 4th October
• AML and VL can email KL with questions until then