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Dosimetry at accelerators:state-of-the-art and applications to medicine

University of Milano, 10th May 2019

Marco Silari

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

3M. Silari - Dosimetry at accelerators - UNIMI, 10 May 2019

• Radiation & Environmental Protection at CERN: past, present and future

• The W-MON project

• The Medipix/Timepix hybrid pixel detector

• MARS CT

• The GEMPix and its application in hadrontherapy

Outlook of the presentation


Radiation & Environmental Protection at CERN

REMUS: CERN Radiation and Environment Monitoring Unified Supervision

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In 2019:

3211 Measurement channels:

864 RP main channels + 1824 auxiliary

523 Environmental channels

26 Types (categories) of monitoring stations

365 days/year, 24/7 operation


Stray Rad Monitors

Area Radiation Monitoring

Ventilation Monitors

Water Monitors

ARCONVME Chassis

Area Monitoring (ARCON)

RA

MS

ES

Induced Activity

Monitors

GRAMS


Courtesy Hamza Boukabache, CERN



REM counters Gas filled, high pressure ionization chambers

Beam-on: to protect workers in areas adjacent to accelerator tunnels and experiments against prompt radiation(mainly neutrons, E < some GeV)

Alarm function

Air filled ionization chambers

Beam-off: to protect workers during maintenance and repair against radiation fields caused by decay of radionuclides (mainly gammas, E < 2.7 MeV)

No alarm function

Site Gate Monitors


supervisionUninterruptible Power supply

Alarm Unit

Worker

Access System / Machines

Radiation Monitor High Reliability components –Military, Automotive or Industrial qualification

Redundant Electronic

Embedded Testability


CROME (CERN RadiatiOn Monitoring Electronics)


CROME Rackable System



W-MON: remote control of radioactivity in waste containers


Meyrin

Prévessin

Origin of the waste containers:

• France: Prévessin site, all SPS and LHC site except BA5, BA6, and LHC P1

• Switzerland: Meyrin site, SPS BA5, BA6 and LHC P1

Number of household waste containers controlled:

• France: 100

• Switzerland: 150

Manual control procedure:

• France: once per week, control duration 2 hours

• Switzerland: three times per week, control duration 2 hours

2017 report:

• 991 measurements campaigns

• 104 problems (weather conditions, accessibility, background too high,…)

• 36 positive controls

Current waste control procedure


7 billion devices connected in 2018

15% increase from 2017

10 billions by 2020source: IoT Analytics

Main applications:

- Business/manufacturing 40.2%

- Health care 30.3%

- Retail 8.3%

- Security 7.7%

- Transportation 4.1%source: Gartner, Inc

Internet Of Things

The IoT solution


CERN

Distributed network of radiation sensors to monitor radioactivity in waste

End-devices Gateway / Concentrator Server

DatabaseREMUS User apps

The W-MON project


1. Gamma rays radiation detection

2. Sensitivity down to background level

3. Robust device, resistant to adverse weather conditions, temperature variations, mechanical

shocks

4. Low power consumption (battery powered) minimum maintenance

5. Wireless data transmission

6. Real-time information

7. Relevant information: alarm for radiation level above threshold, alarm for equipment

malfunctioning, GPS information, data logging

Requirements for an automated system


The W-MON project

• 2014: Identification of the sensor technology

Proof of principle D-shuttle optimal solution as radiation sensor

• 2015: CERN collaboration agreement with Chiyoda and AIST

Feasibility studies Determination of the number and position of the sensors in the container

• 2016: Data handling and communication The beginning of LoRaWAN at CERN

Collaboration with IT for the deployment of a distributed network of LoRa gateways at CERN

• 2017: Reliability tests

Development of a wireless version of the D-shuttle

Development of a custom server and data base before integration into REMUS

• 2018: Migration to CERN LoRa network

Design of the final customized wireless radiation solution (sensor + communication boards)

Optimisation of power consumption


Current approach: D-shuttle

D-shuttle personal dosimeter Reader Reader + PC interface

• Hamamatsu Si PIN diode

• Communication board with optical and 2.4 GHz RF transmitters

• Shock sensor

• Lithium battery, lifetime 1 year (2 readings per day)

• Dose reading from 0.1 µSv to 100 mSv

• Size 68 mm x 32 mm x 14 mm and 23 g weight


Low bit rate -> Low consumption / Frequency band 868 MHz (EU), (920-925 MHz Japan)

Devices Gateway

4G/3G/WiFi

Ethernet

LoRA

Up to 15 km range

LoRaWAN protocol

Network server

4G/3G/WiFi

Ethernet

LoRaWAN: Long Range Wide Area Network


Test in operational conditions (April – November 2017)

Industrial radiography in

a nearby building

Lid

Middle

Bottom


LoRa @ CERN

Gateway position

Points received

nTOF

ISR

PSKindergarten

• Five devices registered and sending data to the CERN LoRa network

• LoRa range tests and antenna deployment in collaboration with CERN-IT group

• Full coverage of all CERN sites by 2019


The low power consumption requirementLow power optimization is one of the main challenges. The devices shall be:

• Portable, small and compact

• Battery powered

• Battery lifetime of several years

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Data transfer

From the standard D-shuttle with optical data extraction to the new long range wireless D-shuttle with SPI

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New transmission time with SPI = 175 ms !!

0.12 mAh 0.023 mAh with SPI

LTC battery with nominal

capacity of 2.5 Ah

60 65 70 75 80 85 90 60 65 70 75 80 85 90

Time (s)

Integrated

current


Master - slaves All masters

WiFi

master

1) The master waits for the data from the

slaves. Data is sent via WiFi

2) Master sends all data through LoRa to the

server

master

1) Each master extracts its own data from the

dosimeter

2) Each master sends its own data to the

server via LoRa

Possible W-MON architectures


Exploring other options• Another candidate – BG51 gamma radiation sensor from Teviso

• Ultra low power requirement (25 µA)

• Detector sensitivity: 5 cpm/µSv/h

• High immunity to RF and electrostatic fields

• Measurement range of dose rate 0.1 µSv/h to 100 mSv/h

• Pulse count rate: 5 cpm ± 15% for 1 µSv/h radiation dose rate


Medipix/Timepix and some medical applications


Hybrid pixel detectors

• Hybrid pixel detectors are used in high energy physics (HEP) experiments

because they provide practically noise-free ‘images’ of particle collisions taken

with the equivalent of a very high speed shutter

• A preamplifier amplifies the charge deposited by a passing particle in a sensor

producing a fast shaped pulse

• This pulse is compared with a threshold

• Given the very small capacitance at the input of the pixel electronics, the front-end

provides a response with an equivalent input noise charge of 100 e− rms even at

shaping times of 25 ns. If a threshold is set at 1000 e− the binary information

contains practically no noise


Schematic of a hybrid pixel detector with the sensor chip and the electronics chip connected via bump bonds

• In the hybrid pixel detector architecture the radiation sensor element and the readout are

processed separately

• The sensor is segmented with the same geometry as the readout chip and detector and

readout cells are connected using standard flip-chip technology

• The separation in processing allows for independent optimization of readout and sensor

and different sensor materials can be used with the same readout.

Hybrid pixel detectors


Medipix2/Timepix assemblies

Single assembly

Pixels: 256 x 256

Pixel size: 55 x 55 mm2

Area: 1.5 x 1.5 cm2

Quad assembly

Pixels: 512 x 512

Pixel size: 55 x 55 mm2

Area: 3 x 3 cm2


Bump bonding• Hybrid pixel detectors use flip chip technology to connect the pixel readout chip to the sensor material

• The individual bump bonds between a sensor and a readout pixel is 25 µm in diameter and made of

Pb-Sn solder (for 300 μm and 700 μm Si assemblies) or sometimes indium (for 1 mm thick CdTe sensor)

SEM images before assembling

The Si sensor sideEutectic tin-lead solder bumps sitting on

top of the Medipix2


Timepix

• Readout chip fully compatible with Medipix2 electronics/software

• 4 operational modes

Counting (= Medipix2 single threshold mode)

Time over threshold mode (~ energy deposited)

Arrival time mode

Single hit

• Mode can be set in each pixel independently, allowing for concurrent energy and arrival time measurements


N+ P+

Si

Counter: Particle count

+

AmplifierComparator

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Planar pixellated detector

bump-bonded to read-out chip

Ionizing particle creates a

charge in a sensitive volume

The charge in each pixel is

amplified and compared with a

threshold

Digital counter is incremented

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Thresholdlevel

Courtesy Z. Vykydal, IEAP Prague

Principle of single particle counting detector


Timepix

Time-over-Threshold: ToT Arrival Time: TimePix

The Ref_clock is used to generate the clock

Counter value ~ Energy

Clk Counter:10-80MHz

AmplifierComparator

000088

Pixel electronics

Thresholdlevel

Clk Counter:10-80MHz

AmplifierComparator

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Pixel electronics

Thresholdlevel

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Close shutter

t

Counter value ~ Arrival time

Direct measurement of particle energy or its arrival time in each pixel

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Handles plug-in mgmt and mediate

access to the MPX Control Library

Handles several MPX

devices connected to PC

Stepper motor control unit

Revolver for beam

hardening corrections

Interface HW control

Setting MPX parameters, acquisition ctrl, TH

equalization, DAC control panel, cluster analysis,…

Data acquisition: the Pixelman software package


Pattern recognition of tracks

a) 241Am alpha source gives clusters of ~5x5 pixels. The cluster sizes depend on particle energy and

threshold (discriminator) setting

b) Signature of X-rays from a 55Fe X-ray source. Photons yield single pixel hits or hits on 2 adjacent

pixels due to charge sharing

c) 90Sr beta source produces curved tracks

Medipix with 300 μm thick Si sensor

Tracks of particles in solid-state silicon are visualized online in a similar way as in nuclear emulsions, cloud chambers or bubble chambers


(e.g., protons and neutrons >1 MeV)

Cluster analysis


X-ray imaging

Images taken with an equalized Medipix2 quad:

Left: 500 ms acquisition of an anchovy with a W X-ray tube at 15 kVp

Right: 100 ms acquisition of a wrist watch with a W X-ray tube at 50 kVp

• Medipix3RX detector chip bonded to Si sensors at 110 µm pitch

with 8 energy bins per pixel and 2 ms frame readout

• 360, 720 or 1440 frames, Al or Brass filters

• 120 kVp, 350 μA x-ray source with helical scan mode

• Precision horizontal in vivo sample stage with gas lines, monitoring

inputs and temperature sensors

• Iterative reconstruction and processing algorithms quantify the

concentration of elements and compounds in mg/mL

• Visualization workstation with HP Zvr 3D virtual reality display for

image analysis

Colour coded material identification

Pre-clinical spectral scanner Courtesy Pierre Carbonez, CERN


MARS CT scanner

First organ dose measurements on mice

with the MARS-CT scanner using TLDs

placed in plastic bags inserted in a mouse Courtesy Pierre Carbonez, CERN

MARS CT scanner

Courtesy Pierre Carbonez, CERN


Human MARS CT scanner


GEMPix and some medical applications


70 µm 140 µm

Gas Electron Multiplier:

• 50 mm thick kapton foil

• 5 mm of copper on each side

• high surface-density of bi-conical channels

The three functions

• Conversion

• Amplification

• Readout

are well separated

High level of particle discrimination by adjusting the gain of the individual GEM foils - Total gain max 105

Triple-GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier)


Trip

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Readout Electronics

The GEMPix - An Ultra Pixelated Gas Detector


The GEMPix combines two CERN technologies: GEM detectors and

the Timepix to produce a gas detector with 55 µm readout granularity

(1) Gas Supply

(2) High Voltage

(3) Entrance Window

(4) GEM Foils

(5) FITPix Readout

Sensitive volume = 3 x 3 x 1.2 cm3

The Gempix - An Ultra Pixellated Gas Detector

• The Gempix combines two CERN developed

technologies, GEM detectors and the Timepix to

produce a gas detector with 55 um readout granularity

(c)

(1) Gas Supply

(2) High Voltage

(3) Entrance Window

(4) GEM Foils

(5) FITPix Readout

Sensitive area = 3 x 3

x 1.2 cm3

Marie Curie Initial Training Network funded by the European

Commission 7th Framework Programme, Grant Agreement 289198,

2012-2016

The GEMPix - An Ultra Pixelated Gas Detector


GEMPix final assembly


4 naked Timepix ASICs with 512 x 512 pixels, 55 µm x 55 µm pixel size

Different readout modes possible:

• Pulse counting

• Time of Arrival (ToA)

• Time over Threshold (ToT) -> deposited energy

Timepix: frame based signal digitization


X-ray detection: 5.9 keV photons from 55Fe source

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20% energy resolution for 5.9 keV

Timepix: frame based signal digitization


The detector is a naked quad Timepix :

The active area is 8 cm2

The particle track is analysed with 512 pixels in 3 cm length

This is equivalent to 30 µm of tissue … with 17 samples/µm

Head-on

Side-onGas flux AR CO2

Triple GEM

Mylar window

Particles to be analysed

Gas flux

Triple GEM

Particles to be analysed

Length analysed

GEMPix: two operating modes


Bragg Peak

Beam

Tumou

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An integrated system for measurements of 3D energy deposition in water by clinical ion beams


S. Giordanengo et al. (2017): ‘Review of technologies and procedures of clinical dosimetry for scanned ion beam radiotherapy’

• Hadron therapy: well-defined region of energy deposition (Bragg curve with Bragg peak)

• QA: beam QA (range, spread out Bragg peak, …), typical dose uncertainties: order of 1%

• Patient treatment plan verification: typically arrays of ion chambers with little spatial resolution

• GEMPix provides superior spatial resolution

Quality Assurance in hadron therapy


• Water phantom donated from Luzern hospital equipped with GEMPix, reference PTW ion

chamber + readout

• Ion chamber, GEMPix and movement in water phantom integrated in one system (HW/SW)

IC

Beam

Measurements at CNAO – Italian National Centre for Oncological Hadron therapy

GEMPix integrated in water phantom


280 MeV/A carbon ions, 0.01 s frame, ASIC in particle counting (Medipix) mode,

105 ions in frame

Pixels allow for high count rates - beam monitoring


• Beam spot taken on Plateau, Bragg Peak and Tail

• Beam halo: single particle reconstruction

• 2D images with much better spatial resolution than with an ion chamber

Measurements with 12C ion beam at CNAO


After corrections: most data points within ± 10% compared to FLUKA simulation

12C ion beam, 150 mm range: corrected Bragg curve


Beam

Bragg Peak

Fragmentation Tail

3D dose reconstruction after depth scan

Plateau

3D energy deposition by 12C ion beam

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Dosimetry at accelerators: state-of-the-art and applications to … Colloquia... · 2019. 5. 16. · Outlook of the presentation. M. Silari - Dosimetry at accelerators - UNIMI, 10