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Wiki for the proton CT project

Documentation and Howto's

Software

• Software Documentation on how to install and use the involved software packages, how to use the GitLab service, and about the development workflow, etc.

Hardware

• Hardware Documentation and Howto's on pReadout, ALPIDE bonding, Production Test Box, Transition Card

Control & Readout Software

• Control & Readout Software Documentation and Howto's

ALPIDE

• ALPIDE Documentation and Papers

Cooling

Cooling Documentation on the cooling simulations, measurements, laboratory setup and the final design.

Århus Testbeam 2023

Århus Testbeam 2023 Documentation on the testbeam at Århus hospital including simulation, setup, equipment used, etc.

Publications

List of publications from the project.

Workpackage Reports

• pCT-WP1-01-Rev2 Detector design specifications (Rev2: Added carrier board thickness recommendations) --- See also submitted article on design optimization
• pCT-WP1-02-Rev3 Radiation environment and placement of electronics (Rev2: Updated results and assumptions, Rev3: Updated with 1-10cm results) (Please feel free to contact Jarle Rambo Sølie if there are any questions regarding the contents of this document.

Theses

• Daniel Aadnevik - MSc - 2014 - Extremely high-granularity digital tracking calorimeter for the detection of scattered protons in pCT
• Kristian Austreim - MSc - 2015 - Proton computed tomography readout testing and detector design
• Ola Grøttvik - MSc - 2017 - Design of High-Speed Digital Readout System for Use in Proton Computed Tomography
• Håkon Schaug - MSc - 2017 - Proton Beam Test Of A High Granularity Calorimeter For Proton Computed Tomography
• Even Hansen - MSc - 2017 - Charge Diffusion Modelling for a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor Detector with Application to Proton CT
• Helge Pettersen - PhD - 2018 - A Digital Tracking Calorimeter for Proton Computed Tomography
• Simon Kristian Huiberts - MSc - 2018 - Characterization of the ALPIDE chip using He ions (Data from Australian Micro beam, cluster size characteristics).
• Viljar Nilsen Ekeland - MSc - 2018 - Characterization of the ALPIDE chip using protons (Data from Oslo beam test, cluster size and LET correlation with different bias voltages).
• Susmita Afroz - MSc - 2018 - Noise and Cluster Size Studies of ALPIDE-CMOS Pixel Sensor for pCT
• Håkon Andreas Underdal - MSc (HVL) - 2019 - Data Acquisition and Testing Software for a Proton Computed Tomography System
• Silje Grimstad - MSc (HVL) - 2019 - ALPIDE Cluster simulations (Building database of cluster characteristics, simulation of clusters using said database. Position and cluster separation algorithms).
• Alba Garcia Santos - MSc (Utrecht) - 2019 - Improvements of track reconstruction algorithms in pixel-based pCT calorimeters
• Aleksei Kuleshov - MSc - 2019 - Proton CT monitoring and ALPIDE control (MQTT protocol server, System workflow, GUI implementation).
• Øistein Jelmert Skjolddal - MSc (HVL) - 2020 Scalable Readout for Proton CT - pRU parser and Root interface.
• Jarle Rambo Sølie - PhD (HVL/UiB) - 2020 A Monte Carlo simulation framework for performance evaluation of a proton imaging system without front trackers.
• Ola Grøttvik - PhD (UiB) - 2021 Design and Implementation of a High-Speed Readout and Control System for a Digital Tracking Calorimeter for proton CT.
• Alf Kristoffer Herland - MSc (HVL) - 2021 Development and implementation of data acquisition software for proton computed tomography.
• Rune Almåsbakk - MSc (HVL) - 2022 Design and Implementation of Alignment software for a Digital Tracking Calorimeter used for proton CT.
• Håvard Birkenes - MSc (UiB) - Design of a Configuration and Monitoring System for the Power Supply in the ProtonCT Project.
• Alfred Abbasi - MSc (UiB) - 2023 Hardware and Software Studies for the Alignment of the Proton CT.
• Jakub Bieniek - MSc (UiB) - 2023 Commisioning of the Cooling System for the Bergen Proton Computed Tomography Digital Tracking Calorimeter.

Journal Articles

• Aehle, M., et al. Exploration of differentiability in a proton computed tomography simulation framework Physics in Medicine and Biology 2023;68(244002).
  • UiB archive: [ http://hdl.handle.net/10852/106386 ]
  • IOP Science link: doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ad0bdd

• Schilling, A., et al. Towards Neural Charged Particle Tracking in Digital Tracking Calorimeters With Reinforcement Learning Physics in Medicine and Biology 2023;68(194001).
  • UiB archive: [ https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3100524 ]
  • IOP Science link: doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3305027

• Kortus, T., et al. Towards Neural Charged Particle Tracking in Digital Tracking Calorimeters With Reinforcement Learning IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2023;45(15820).
  • UiB archive: [ http://hdl.handle.net/10852/106386 ]
  • IEEE link: doi:10.1088/1361-6560/acf5c2

• Alme, J., Barnaföldi, G.G., Barthel, R., Borshchov, V., Bodova, T., van den Brink, A., et al. A High-Granularity Digital Tracking Calorimeter Optimized for Proton CT. Frontiers in Physics. 2020;8(460).
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • Frontiers link: doi:10.3389/fphy.2020.568243

• Pettersen, H.E.S., Volz, L., Sølie, J. R., Alme, J., Barnaföldi, G.G., Barthel, R. et al. Helium Radiography with a Digital Tracking Calorimeter-a Monte Carlo Study for Secondary Track Rejection. Phys. Med. Biol. 2021;66(3):035004.
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • IOP Science link: doi:10.1088/1361-6560/abca03

• Sølie, J.R., Volz, L., Pettersen H.E.S., Piersimoni, P., Odland, O.H., Röhrich, D., et al. Image quality of list-mode proton imaging without front trackers. Phys. Med. Biol. 2020;65(13):135012.
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • IOP Science link: doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ab8ddb

• Tambave, G., Alme, J., Barnaföldi, G.G., Barthel, R., Van Den Brink, A., Brons, S., et al. Characterization of monolithic CMOS pixel sensor chip with ion beams for application in particle computed tomography. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 2020;958:162626.
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • Elsevier link: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2019.162626

• Pettersen, Helge Egil Seime, Johan Alme, Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi, Alba Garcıa-Santos, Ola Grøttvik, Håvard Helstrup, Kristin Fanebust Hetland, Ilker Meric, Odd Harald Odland, Gabor Papp, Thomas Peitzmann, Dieter Röhrich, Joao Seco, Hesam Shafiee, Eivind Vågslid Skjæveland, Ganesh Tambave, Kjetil Ullaland, Monika Varga-Kofarago, Lennart Volz, Boris Wagner and Shiming Yang. Design Optimization of a Pixel Based Range Telescope for Proton Computed Tomography. Physica Medica Special Issue: Advances in Geant4 for medicine. 2019; 63:87-97
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • Elsevier link: doi:10.1016/J.ejmp.2019.05.026

• Pettersen, H.E.S., J. Alme, A. van den Brink, M. Chaar, D. Fehlker, I. Meric, O.H. Odland, et al. Proton Tracking in a High-Granularity Digital Tracking Calorimeter for Proton CT Purposes. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 860C, 51–61. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.007.
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • Elsevier link: doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.007
  • arXiv link: arXiv:1611.02031

• Pettersen, H.E.S., Chaar, M., Meric, I., Odland, O.H., Sølie, J., Röhrich, D. Accuracy of parameterized proton range models; a comparison. Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 144 (C): 295-297 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.radphyschem.2017.08.02
  • Published manuscript: PDF
  • Elsevier link: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2017.08.028
  • arXiv link: arXiv:1704.08854

• Pettersen, H. E. S., and D. Röhrich. 2017. Kreftbehandling Med Protonterapi Og Proton CT. Fra Fysikkens Verden, December 2017.
  • Published article: PDF
  • Magazine at norskfysisk.no

Submitted

• Pettersen, H.E.S., Meric, I., Odland, O.H., Shafiee, H., Sølie, J., Röhrich, D. Proton Tracking Algorithm for Pixel Based Range Telescopes for Proton Computed Tomography. Revision submitted to Web of Conferences after the "Connecting the Dots" conference.
  • Revised manuscript: PDF

• Pettersen, Helge Egil Seime, Lennart Volz, Jarle Sølie, Dieter Rohrich, and Joao Seco. A Linear Projection Model to Estimate a Proton’s Position in a Pencil Beam For Single Sided Proton Imaging,. Submitted to Physics in Medicine and Biology.
  • Submitted manuscript: PDF

• Eikeland, Viljar Nilsen et al. Bergen Proton CT System. Submitted as proceedings for the 12th Position Sensitive Detectors conference.
  • Submitted manuscript: PDF

Posters

• Eikeland, Viljar Nilsen. Bergen proton CT system. Presented at the 12th Position Sensitive Detectors conference.
  • Submitted poster PDF

Meetings

Hosted on Indico https://indico.cern.ch/category/13882.

The old pages on the wiki can be found here: Meetings

Slides from the project workshops in 2016

Commissioning

Planning and information on commissioning, beam tests, etc.

Workpackages

Sections for the different work packages

People

Contact info of involved people

Links

Link collection of topics regarding the project

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