Conveners
The MeASURe Experience - Part 2
- Andy Buffler (UCT)
Metrological and Applied Sciences University Research Unit (MeASURe), Department of Physics, University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town recently declared its intention to “design the technical specifications and business case for a proton therapy centre to be established in Cape Town, near to both the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Groote Schuur Hospital.”...
Fast neutron fields, such as those present in aviation, space, and nuclear research environments, pose significant biological risk. New detectors are being developed for the purpose of monitoring these fields up to 20 MeV. The detectors are made from EJ-276 plastic scintillator in novel geometries coupled to one or more silicon photomultipliers, using digital pulse acquisition and processing. ...
The primary radiation environment in space consists of a complex mixture of charged particles with a broad range of energies originating from our Sun and from outside of our solar system. Neutrons with energies of up to several TeV are produced through the interactions of this primary cosmic radiation with matter, such as that in spacecraft shielding, and in the atmospheres and regoliths of...
Prompt gamma rays (PGs) produced by nuclear collisions during proton therapy (PT) can be used for in vivo proton beam range verification through a technique known as prompt gamma imaging (PGI). During PT, the production of PGs within the tissue provides a reliable location map for the proton dose deposition. The detection of these PGs using a Compton Camera (CC) can be used to construct a...
