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Medical Applications of the GEMPix

  • Johannes Leidner,
  • Fabrizio Murtas and
  • Marco Silari
Appl. Sci.2021, 11(1), 440;https://doi.org/10.3390/app11010440

5 January 2021

The GEMPix is a small gaseous detector with a highly pixelated readout, consisting of a drift region, three Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) for signal amplification, and four Timepix ASICs with 55 µm pixel pitch and a total of 262,144 pixels. A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Medical Physics)
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Characterization with X-rays of a Large-Area GEMPix Detector with Optical Readout for QA in Hadron Therapy

  • Andreia Maia Oliveira,
  • Hylke B. Akkerman,
  • Saverio Braccini,
  • Albert J. J. M. van Breemen and ,
  • Lucia Gallego Manzano,
  • Natalie Heracleous,
  • Ilias Katsouras,
  • Johannes Leidner,
  • Fabrizio Murtas and
  • Marco Silari
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Appl. Sci.2021, 11(14), 6459;https://doi.org/10.3390/app11146459

13 July 2021

Quality Assurance (QA) in hadron therapy is crucial to ensure safe and accurate dose delivery to patients. This can be achieved with fast, reliable and high-resolution detectors. In this paper, we present a novel solution that combines a triple Gas E...

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