학술논문
A Time-Of-Flight Gamma Camera Data Acquisition System for Hadrontherapy Monitoring
Document Type
Conference
Author
Chen, X.; Allegrini, O.; Carlus, B.; Caplan, C. P. C.; Caponetto, L.; Cachemiche, J.-P.; Curtoni, S.; Dauvergne, D.; Della-Negra, R.; Fontana, M.; Gallin-Martel, L.; Gallin-Martel, M.-L.; Herault, J.; Lambert, D.; Lu, G.-N.; Magne, M.; Marcatili, S.; Mathez, H.; Morel, C.; Montarou, G.; Testa, E.; Zoccarato, Y.
Source
2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2019 IEEE. :1-3 Oct, 2019
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ISSN
2577-0829
Abstract
A collimated gamma camera coupled to a beam hodoscope is currently under development within the CLaRyS collaboration to provide ion-range verification during hadrontherapy. We propose a µTCA-based data acquisition (DAQ) system that consists of dedicated front-end boards, a multi-optical DAQ board, a reference clock board and a computer. Several specific developments have been performed in the front-end boards, namely a TDC (time-to-digital converter) based system synchronization, and an adjustable-depth data buffer, a histogram-based fast time-of-flight estimation and an easy adaptation for different applications. All these DAQ developments have been recently tested with reduced-size hodoscope and collimated camera in the Mediterranean Protontherapy Institute in Nice (65 MeV proton beam).