A simulation study of a dual-plate in-room PET system for dose verification in carbon ion therapy

During carbon ion therapy, lots of positron emitters such as 11C, 15O, 11C are generated in irradiated tissues by nuclear reactions, and can be used to track the carbon beam in the tissue by a positron emission tomography （PET） scanner. In this study, an dual-plate in-room PET scanner has been designed and evaluated based on the GATE simulation platform to monitor patient dose in carbon ion therapy. The dual-plate PET is designed to avoid interference with the carbon beamline and with patient positioning. Its performance was compared with that of four-head and full-ring PET scanners. The dual-plate, four-head and full-ring PET scanners consisted of 30, 60, 60 detector modules, respectively, with a 36 cm distance measurements. Each detector module consisted of a between directly opposite detector modules for dose deposition 24~24 array of 2 mm×2 mm×18 mm LYSO pixels coupled to a Hamamatsu H8500 PMT. To estimate the production yield of positron emitters, a 10 cm×15 cm×15 cm cuboid PMMA phantom was irradiated with 172, 200, 250 MeV/u 12C beams. 3D images of the activity distribution measured by the three types of scanner are produced by an iterative reconstruction algorithm. By comparing the longitudinal profile of positron emitters along the carbon beam path, it is indicated that use of the dual-plate PET scanner is feasible for monitoring the dose distribution in carbon ion therapy.     

A Module Test of CCDA： an Array to Select the Centrality of Collisions in Heavy Ion Collisions

A test result of a module for the collision centrality detector array （CCDA）, a simple detector array for the event classification of the centrality, is presented. The CsI（Tl） module has PMTs on both ends to read out signals. The beam test results indicate that it provides a good light charged particles （LCP） identification and a reasonable energy resolution. The energy spectra of LCPs are compared with the GEANT simulation.     

10.6MeV/u 84Kr+27Al反应中角动量对断点前粒子多重性的影响

用推广的裂变扩散模型研究了角动量对10.6MeV/u ⁸⁴Kr(²⁷Al,二体裂变)反应断点前粒子多重性的影响,发现阶点前粒子多重性和断点时间随着角动量的减小逐渐增大,而且绝大多数粒子是在鞍点前发射的. 对实验中二体裂变反应发生的角动量范围进行权重平均,得到了与实验一致的断点前粒子多重性. 同时还研究了影响断点前粒子多重性和断点时间的诸多因素.     

ISOTOPIC DISTRIBUTION IN HEAVY ION REACTION AT INTERMEDIATE ENERGY

在原子核输运理论的框架内，结合统计蒸发理论，发展了一种计算中能重离子周边反应同位素分布的新方法．碰撞过程中的初始碎片由ＱＭＤ理论模拟计算得到的，初始碎片的蒸发用ＧＥＭＩＮＩｃｏｄｅ得到．计算结果很好地拟合了４４ＭｅＶ／ｕ４０Ａｒ＋１８１Ｔａ反应的同位素分布（Ｚ从６到１０）．计算结果表明压缩系数为２００ＭｅＶ时，能很好地解释实验结果．