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Analog Filters Design for Improving Precision in Proton Sound Detectors
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Vallicelli, Elia Arturo Matteis, Marcello De |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This paper analyzes how to improve the precision of ionoacoustic proton range verification by optimizing the analog signal processing stages with particular emphasis on analog filters. The ionoacoustic technique allows one to spatially detect the proton beam penetration depth/range in a water absorber, with interesting possible applications in real-time beam monitoring during hadron therapy treatments. The state of the art uses nonoptimized detectors that have low signal quality and thus require a higher total dose, which is not compatible with clinical applications. For these reasons, a comprehensive analysis of acoustic signal bandwidth, signal-to-noise-ratio and noise power/bandwidth will be presented. The correlation between these signal-quality parameters with maximum achievable proton range measurement precision will be discussed. In particular, the use of an optimized analog filter allows one to decrease the dose required to achieve a given precision by as much as 98.4% compared to a nonoptimized filter approach. |
| Starting Page | 12 |
| e-ISSN | 20799268 |
| DOI | 10.3390/jlpea11010012 |
| Journal | Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-03-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications Nuclear Energy and Engineering Nuclear Imaging Particle Accelerator Particle Beam Measurements Acoustic Waves Analog Circuits Digital Circuits |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
