• 제목/요약/키워드: Proton beam

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극대세장비 마이크로 홀을 이용한 양성자 빔 집적 응용 (A Proton Beam Shaping using an Extreme Aspect Ratio Micro-hole)

  • 김진남;권원태;이성규
    • 한국정밀공학회지
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    • 제29권7호
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    • pp.737-744
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    • 2012
  • EDM is the manufacturing process that uses the thermal energy to machine electrically conductive part. Despite a lot of research has been conducted for decades, the best aspect ratio of the micro hole using micro-EDM has not been over 30, yet. In the present study, new fabrication scheme was introduced to increase the aspect ratio of micro hole dramatically. Micro holes with less than 10 aspect ratio were aligned and welded together to manufacture a micro hole with extreme aspect ratio. Alignment of the micro hole with over 380 aspect ratio was conducted by the home-made apparatus installed with microscope and laser beam. The micro hole with extreme aspect ratio was used to shape pencil beam from proton beam generated from MC-50 cyclotron. The pencil beam was utilized to machine test specimen whose result was compared with GEANT4 computer simulation. It was shown that the experimental and simulation result were closer as the aspect ratio of the micro hole was bigger.

몬테카를로 시뮬레이션을 이용한 양성자 조사에 따른 Polymer Gel 내부의 선량 분포 특성 평가 (Estimation of the Characteristics for the Dose Distribution in the Polymer Gel by Means of Monte Carlo Simulation)

  • 박민석;김기섭;정해조;박세영;최인석;김현지;윤용수;김정민
    • 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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    • 제36권2호
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    • pp.165-173
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    • 2013
  • 본 연구는 몬테카를로 시뮬레이션을 이용하여 양성자 빔을 피사체에 조사했을 때 발생되는 양성자, 즉발감마선 그리고 양성자 유발 중성자의 3차원적 공간분포를 polymer gel 선량계를 통해 구하고, 이를 물 팬텀에서 조사한 결과와 비교하여 3차원적 선량 분포의 정확성에 대해 알아보고자 한다. 본 연구에서 사용 된 polymer gel 선량계는 Gelatin, Methacrylic acid, Hydroquinone, Tetrakis 그리고 증류수로 이루어진 혼합물로 그 밀도는 $1.04g/cm^3$으로 물의 밀도인 $0.9998g/cm^3$과 유사하다. 본 시뮬레이션에서는 72 MeV, 116 MeV, 140 MeV 의 양성자 빔이 사용되었다. 양성자 빔은 팬텀의 핵과 반응을 하고 양성자 빔으로 인해 여기된 핵이 다시 안정하게 되기 위해 즉발감마선 그리고 양성자 유발 중성자를 방출한다. 양성자와 즉발감마선 그리고 양성자 유발 중성자는 polymer gel 선량계와 물 팬텀에서 각각 검출하였다. 3차원적 선량 분포를 얻기 위한 검출 간격은 2 mm로 하여 선량 분포를 획득하였다. Polymer gel 선량계에서의 양성자의 Bragg-peak를 구해 본 결과 Bragg-peak 지점이 물 팬텀에서의 경우와 유사하게 나타남을 확인 할 수 있었다. 72 MeV, 116 MeV, 그리고 140 MeV의 양성자 빔을 polymer gel 그리고 물 팬텀에 조사했을 때 그 내부에서의 양성자 그리고 즉발감마선의 선량 분포는 polymer gel, 물 팬텀 각각 유사한 선량분포를 가짐을 감마 인덱스 평가로 확인 할 수 있었다. 하지만 양성자 유발 중성자의 경우 물 팬텀에서는 검출이 된 반면 polymer gel 선량계에서는 검출이 되지 않았다. Polymer Gel 선량계는 3차원적 선량 분포를 얻는데 유용한 선량계이지만 양성자 조사 시 그 유발 중성자의 검출에는 한계를 보임을 확인할 수 있었다.

A Study on the VME-Based Application for Integrated Control of PEFP Linac Machine Components

  • Song, Young-Gi;An, Eun-Mi;Kwon, Hyeok-Jung;Cho, Yong-Sub
    • 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보처리학회 2009년도 추계학술발표대회
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    • pp.141-142
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    • 2009
  • The PEFP (Proton Engineering Frontier Project) is constructing a 100MeV proton Linac (Linear Accelerator). The 20 MeV 20 mA proton beam has been serviced for an application in the fields of material, biological, information technology and medical sciences. For a stable and efficient acceleration of a proton beam, the control requirements must be optimized by studying various control methods. We propose that the integrated control system for the Linac machine components must be based on a distribution control method to improve a centralized control system. Based on EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) real-time software, the VME (Versa Module European package format) IOC (Input Output Controller) was developed under cross development environment with a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) PowerPC system. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of distributed control system using the VME-based EPICS middleware for various components of the large proton accelerator.

Test of a Multilayer Dose-Verification Gaseous Detector with Raster-Scan-Mode Proton Beams

  • Lee, Kyong Sei;Ahn, Sung Hwan;Han, Youngyih;Hong, Byungsik;Kim, Sang Yeol;Park, Sung Keun
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • 제4권5호
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    • pp.297-304
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    • 2015
  • A multilayer gaseous detector has been developed for fast dose-verification measurements of raster-scan-mode therapeutic beams in particle therapy. The detector, which was constructed with eight thin parallel-plate ionization chambers (PPICs) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) absorber plates, is closely tissue-equivalent in a beam's eye view. The gas-electron signals, collected on the strips and pad arrays of each PPIC, were amplified and processed with a continuous charge.integration mode. The detector was tested with 190-MeV raster-scan-mode beams that were provided by the Proton Therapy Facility at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. The detector responses of the PPICs for a 190-MeV raster-scan-mode proton beam agreed well with the dose data, measured using a 2D ionization chamber array (Octavius model, PTW). Furthermore, in this study it was confirmed that the detector simultaneously tracked the doses induced at the PPICs by the fast-oscillating beam, with a scanning speed of 2 m s-1. Thus, it is anticipated that the present detector, composed of thin PPICs and operating in charge.integration mode, will allow medical scientists to perform reliable fast dose-verification measurements for typical dynamic mode therapeutic beams.

Application of CRAMPS for a Phase Transition in H+-ion irradiated TlH2PO4

  • Kim, Se-Hun;Han, J.H.;Lee, Cheol-Eui;Lee, Kwang-Sei;Kim, Chang-Sam;Dalal, N.S.;Han, Doug-Young
    • 한국자기공명학회논문지
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    • 제14권2호
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    • pp.134-143
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    • 2010
  • We studied the hydrogen-bonded $TlH_2PO_4$ (TDP) ferroelectrics treated with the proton-beam bombardment. The TDP material was irradiated with 1-MeV proton beam at a dose of $10^{15}/cm^2$. In order to analyze the hydrogen environment in TDP, we carried out the $^1H$ high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) - i.e., Combined Rotation And Multiple Pulse Spectroscopy (CRAMPS) measurement. The isotropic chemical shift of hydrogen indicates its displacive property is related to the $PO_4$ lattice deformation which occurs throughout the antiferroelectric-, the ferroelastic- and the paraelastic-phase transitions. The temperature dependence of $\sigma_{iso}$ reveals the electronic charge redistribution is induced by the proton-beam irradiation and the elastic property.

Development of neutron time-of-flight measurement system for 1.7-MV tandem proton accelerator with lithium target

  • Lim, Soobin;Kim, Donghwan;Kang, Jin-Goo;Dang, Jeong-Jeung;Lee, Pilsoo;Kim, Geehyun;Chung, Kyoung-Jae;Hwang, Y.S.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권2호
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    • pp.437-441
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    • 2022
  • In this study, we developed a neutron time-of-flight (nTOF) measurement system for a 1.7-MV tandem proton accelerator with a target covered with 300-nm-thick lithium (Li) layer. With implementation of beam chopping module after its ion source, the accelerator is configured to operate in pulsed-beam mode with a pulse width <50 ns at 20-kHz repetition rate. This enables the gamma flash-type nTOF measurement system to identify the neutron generated with 3-MeV proton beam energy. The nTOF system consists of a 30" cylindrical NaI(Tl) and four stilbene scintillation detectors. The NaI(Tl) scintillator is placed 50 cm from the Li target to measure the time of beam irradiation on the target, and the stilbene detectors are placed 2 and 2.4 m away to measure nTOF at each location. The nTOF system successfully measured the generated neutron energy at irradiated proton energies of 2.6 and 3.0 MeV with an average energy resolution of 15%.