Compact and lightweight detector for simultaneous imaging of gamma and neutron radiation in medical applications.
CSIC and the University of Valencia have developed a device that detects and represents gamma and neutron radiation sources simultaneously, and that offers a high spatial resolution to accurately locate and characterize the emission source. It combines both portability and sensitivity, thereby enabling the detection and monitoring of a very broad range of intensities and radioactive sources/isotopes.
Industrial partners from the medical industry are being sought to collaborate through a joint project or a patent licence agreement for the development and commercialization of the device.
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An efficient and light device for medical imaging
Top: Prompt gammas and secondary neutrons produced in a HT treatment and detected with our Gamma-neutron imaging device (bottom left). Bottom right: gamma image of the Bragg peak of 18 MeV protons in a graphite block).
Currently available imaging devices in Hadron Therapy facilities cannot provide a combined and correlated detection and imaging of gamma and neutron radiations, and available commercial Compton cameras feature too low efficiency, limiting their potential for real time gamma imaging.
Therefore, real-time (neutron and gamma) dose monitoring and ion-beam range verification are among the main challenges in Hadron Therapy, one of the most promising methodologies for cancer treatment.
Our system consists in a compact and lightweight device, portable, scalable and easy to adapt to different needs of space, volume and weight of the clinical facilities. It successfully integrates in a single small and portable device the capability to image with high efficiency both gamma radiation and neutrons. This allows obtaining accurate information to improve the safety and precision of Hadron Therapy treatments).
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The Spanish National Research Council (in Spanish 'Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)') is a government agency for basic and applied scientific research.
It is the largest public research organization in Spain, with presence in all the Autonomous Communities through 126 centers and 145 associated units.
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