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Vijande, J.; Tedgren, A.C.; Ballester, F.; Baltas, D.; Papagiannis, P.; Rivard, M.J.; Siebert, F.A.; De Werd, L.; Perez-Calatayud, J. |
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Source strength determination in iridium-192 and cobalt-60 brachytherapy: A European survey on the level of agreement between clinical measurements and manufacturer certificates |
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2021 |
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Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology |
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Phys. Imag. Radiat. Oncol. |
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19 |
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108-111 |
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RAKR; Calibration; HDR; PDR; Brachytherapy |
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Background and purpose: Brachytherapy treatment outcomes depend on the accuracy of the delivered dose distribution, which is proportional to the reference air-kerma rate (RAKR). Current societal recommendations require the medical physicist to compare the measured RAKR values to the manufacturer source calibration certificate. The purpose of this work was to report agreement observed in current clinical practice in the European Union. Materials and methods: A European survey was performed for high- and pulsed-dose-rate (HDR and PDR) highenergy sources (Ir-192 and Co-60), to quantify observed RAKR differences. Medical physicists at eighteen hospitals from eight European countries were contacted, providing 1,032 data points from 2001 to 2020. Results: Over the survey period, 77% of the Ir-192 measurements used a well chamber instead of the older Krieger phantom method. Mean differences with the manufacturer calibration certificate were 0.01% +/- 1.15% for Ir-192 and -0.1% +/- 1.3% for Co-60. Over 95% of RAKR measurements in the clinic were within 3% of the manufacturer calibration certificate. Conclusions: This study showed that the agreement level was generally better than that reflected in prior societal recommendations positing 5%. Future recommendations on high-energy HDR and PDR source calibrations in the clinic may consider tightened agreements levels. |
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[Vijande, Javier; Ballester, Facundo] Univ Valencia UV, Dept Fis Atom Mol & Nucl, Burjassot, Spain, Email: Javier.vijande@uv.es |
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WOS:000694711800017 |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4969 |
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Jay, G.; Arnault, P.; Debbasch, F. |
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Dirac quantum walks with conserved angular momentum |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Quantum Studies-Mathematics and Foundations |
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Quantum Stud. Math. Found. |
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8 |
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419-430 |
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Quantum walks; Quantum simulation; Lattice field theory |
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A quantum walk (QW) simulating the flat (1+2)D Dirac equation on a spatial polar grid is constructed. Because fermions are represented by spinors, which do not constitute a representation of the rotation group SO(3), but rather of its double cover SU(2), the QW can only be defined globally on an extended spacetime where the polar angle extends from 0 to 4 pi. The coupling of the QW with arbitrary electromagnetic fields is also presented. Finally, the cylindrical relativistic Landau levels of the Dirac equation are computed explicitly and simulated by the QW. |
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[Jay, Gareth] Univ Western Australia, Phys Dept, Perth, WA 6009, Australia, Email: gareth.jay@uwa.edu.au; |
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Springer |
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2196-5609 |
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WOS:000697709700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4975 |
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Barrientos, L.; Borja-Lloret, M.; Etxebeste, A.; Muñoz, E.; Oliver, J.F.; Ros, A.; Roser, J.; Senra, C.; Viegas, R.; Llosa, G. |
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Performance evaluation of MACACO II Compton camera |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
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Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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1014 |
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165702 - 7pp |
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Compton camera; Hadron therapy; LaBr3; Silicon photomultipliers |
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The IRIS group at IFIC-Valencia has developed a second version of a Compton camera prototype for hadron therapy treatment monitoring, with the aim of improving the performance with respect to its predecessor. The system is composed of three Lanthanum (III) bromide (LaBr3) crystals coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). The detector energy resolution has been improved to 5.6% FWHM at 511 keV and an angular resolution of 8.0 degrees has been obtained. Images of a Na-22 point-like source have been reconstructed selecting two and three interaction events. Moreover, the experimental data have been reproduced with Monte Carlo simulations using a Compton camera module (CCMod) in GATE v8.2 obtaining a good correlation. |
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[Barrientos, L.; Borja-Lloret, M.; Munoz, E.; Oliver, J. F.; Ros, A.; Roser, J.; Senra, C.; Viegas, R.; Llosa, G.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Valencia, Spain, Email: lbarrien@ific.uv.es |
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0168-9002 |
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WOS:000701263400010 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4976 |
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Beltran Jimenez, J.; Delhom, A.; Olmo, G.J.; Orazi, E. |
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Born-Infeld gravity: Constraints from light-by-light scattering and an effective field theory perspective |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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820 |
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136479 - 6pp |
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By using a novel technique that establishes a correspondence between general relativity and metric-affine theories based on the Ricci tensor, we are able to set stringent constraints on the free parameter of Born-Infeld gravity from the ones recently obtained for Born-Infeld electrodynamics by using light-by light scattering data from ATLAS. We also discuss how these gravity theories plus matter fit within an effective field theory framework. |
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[Beltran Jimenez, Jose] Univ Salamanca, Dept Fis Fundamental, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain, Email: jose.beltran@usal.es; |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000701707400005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4978 |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al); Aparisi Pozo, J.A.; Bailey, A.J.; Cabrera Urban, S.; Cardillo, F.; Castillo, F.L.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Costa, M.J.; Escobar, C.; Estrada Pastor, O.; Ferrer, A.; Fiorini, L.; Fullana Torregrosa, E.; Fuster, J.; Garcia, C.; Garcia Navarro, J.E.; Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.; Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G.R.; Guerrero Rojas, J.G.R.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Lacasta, C.; Lozano Bahilo, J.J.; Mamuzic, J.; Marti-Garcia, S.; Martinez Agullo, P.; Mitsou, V.A.; Moreno Llacer, M.; Poveda, J.; Prades Ibañez, A.; Rodriguez Bosca, S.; Ruiz-Martinez, A.; Sabatini, P.; Salt, J.; Santra, A.; Sayago Galvan, I.; Soldevila, U.; Sanchez, J.; Torro Pastor, E.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A.; Villaplana Perez, M.; Vos, M. |
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Search for resonances decaying into photon pairs in 139 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
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2021 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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822 |
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136651 - 19pp |
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Searches for new resonances in the diphoton final state, with spin 0 as predicted by theories with an extended Higgs sector and with spin 2 using a warped extra-dimension benchmark model, are presented using 139 fb(-1) of root s = 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. No significant deviation from the Standard Model is observed and upper limits are placed on the production cross-section times branching ratio to two photons as a function of the resonance mass. |
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[Duvnjak, D.; Jackson, P.; Kong, A. X. Y.; Oliver, J. L.; Ruggeri, T. A.; Sharma, A. S.; White, M. J.] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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Elsevier |
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0370-2693 |
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WOS:000703669100040 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4982 |
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