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Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors for Harsh Radiation Environments

The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

Characterization of a flexible a-Si:H detector for in vivo dosimetry in therapeutic x-ray beams

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Matthew James Large

BackgroundThe increasing use of complex and high dose-rate treatments in radiation therapy necessitates advanced detectors to provide accurate dosimetry. Rather than relying on pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) measurements alone, many countries are now ...

Wiley2024

Modulation of the nanoscale motion rate of Candida albicans by X-rays

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

IntroductionPatients undergoing cancer treatment by radiation therapy commonly develop Candida albicans infections (candidiasis). Such infections are generally treated by antifungals that unfortunately also induce numerous secondary effects in the patient. ...

Frontiers Media SA2023

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon high flux x-ray detectors for synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Matthew James Large, Giulia Rossi

Objective. Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) is an alternative emerging radiotherapy treatment modality which has demonstrated effective radioresistant tumour control while sparing surrounding healthy tissue in preclinical trials. This apparent selectivity ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Evaluation of neutron dose rates at the TCV tokamak facility

Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Matteo Vallar

A detailed MCNP neutronics model of the building housing the TCV tokamak has been developed. Predicted dose rates have been compared to neutron dose measurements at 12 locations in the building obtained during neutral beam injection into TCV plasmas. This ...

2023

Measuring the electron energy distribution in tokamak plasmas from polarized electron cyclotron radiation

Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole

In this doctoral thesis, a promising technique has been used for the measurement of non-thermal electrons in TCV. The technique employs a Vertical viewing ECE to more easily discriminate the radiation according to the energy of the electrons. Successful ...

EPFL2023

Characterization of the Radiation Resistance of Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastics for Superconducting Magnets

Sandra Sequeira Lopes Tavares

The overall performance of accelerator magnets strongly relies on electrical and mechanical robustness of their components. With an increase of the energy, future particle accelerators will have to withstand integral doses of ionizing radiation of up to se ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

A novel approach for SPICE modeling of light and radiation effects in ICs

Chiara Rossi

Modeling the interaction of ionizing radiation, either light or ions, in integrated circuits is essential for the development and optimization of optoelectronic devices and of radiation-tolerant circuits. Whereas for optical sensors photogenerated carriers ...

EPFL2021

Ultrafast Resonant Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Quantum Fluid Dynamics

Marcel Drabbels, Andrew Daniel Bonnar Clark, Verónica Oliver Álvarez de Lara, Daniela Rupp

Interatomic processes play a crucial role in weakly bound complexes exposed to ionizing radiation; therefore, gaining a thorough understanding of their efficiency is of fundamental importance. Here, we directly measure the timescale of interatomic Coulombi ...

American Physical Society2021

Satellite-Based Personal UV Dose Estimation

Athanasios Nenes, David Vernez

Epidemiology and public health research relating to solar ultraviolet (UV) exposure usually relies on dosimetry to measure UV doses received by individuals. However, measurement errors affect each dosimetry measurement by unknown amounts, complicating the ...

2021

Modeling the response of a diamond detector in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Pavel Frajtag, Mathieu Hursin, DongHyuk Lee

The present manuscript documents the development of a practical calculation scheme to model the response of a diamond detector in the mixed (neutron and gamma) radiation field of the CROCUS experimental reactor at EPFL. The model is shown to perform reason ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Impact of the skull contour definition on Leksell Gamma Knife(R)Icon (TM) radiosurgery treatment planning

Constantin Tuleasca

Introduction The Gamma Knife(R)planning software (TMR 10, Elekta Instruments, AB, Sweden) affords two ways of defining the skull volume, the "historical" one using manual measurements (still perform in some centers) and the new one using image-based skull ...

2020

Humidity Sensors for High Energy Physics Applications: A Review

Sandro Carrara, Andromachi Tsirou, Amar Kapic

Modern silicon-based detectors for high-energy physics operate in an experimental environment with sub-zero temperatures. At those temperatures, even low traces of humidity will produce vapor condensation with damages to the detectors. Monitoring relative ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

A New Concept of Sensor for Ultra-high Levels of Radiation based on Radiation Enhanced Oxidation of Copper Thin-films

Georgi Gorine

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is the envisioned particle accelerator to be installed in the Geneva area (Switzerland). It could achieve an energy of 100 TeV by colliding proton beams (FCC-hh) travelling through a 100 km tunnel. Unprecedented radiation ...

EPFL2020

Fat navigators based retrospective motion correction strategies for brain magnetic resonance imaging

Frédéric Gretsch

Magnetic resonance resonance (MRI) is a widely used modality to obtain in vivo tissue information. Clinical applications are near countless, and almost all body parts can be examined using an MR scanner. As the method is non invasive, does not use ionizing ...

EPFL2020

Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

Edoardo Charbon, Mathieu Benoit, Christian Morel, Joao Varela

Since the seventies, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an invaluable medical molecular imaging modality with an unprecedented sensitivity at the picomolar level, especially for cancer diagnosis and the monitoring of its response to therapy. Mor ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

MPA-SSA, design and test of a 65 nm ASIC-based system for particle tracking at HL-LHC featuring on-chip particle discrimination

Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Caratelli, Davide Ceresa, Simone Scarfì

Particle tracking detectors for High Energy Physics need a new readout technique to cope with the increase of the collision rate foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC upgrade. In particular, the selection of interesting physics events at the first trigger s ...

IEEE2019

Research and development of an intelligent particle tracker detector electronic system

Alessandro Caratelli

In high energy physics, silicon particles detectors are widely used in tracking applications. They feature high-resolution measurements of the traversing particle positioning and frequently its energy. With the new possibilities introduced by technology sc ...

EPFL2019

Innovative Lab on Fiber dosimeters for ionizing radiation monitoring at ultra-high doses

Georgi Gorine, Federico Ravotti

We report on a innovative Lab on Fiber (LOF) dosimeter for ionizing radiation monitoring at ultra-high doses. The new dosimeter consists in a metallo-dielectric resonator at sub-wavelength scale supporting localized surface plasmon resonances realized on t ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Data-driven Measurement Designs for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Baran Gözcü

Despite being a powerful medical imaging technique which does not emit any ionizing radiation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) always had the major problem of long scanning times that can take up to an hour depending on the application. It also requires u ...

EPFL2019