TY  - JOUR
AU  - Muñoz, E.
AU  - Barrio, J.
AU  - Etxebeste, A.
AU  - Ortega, P. G.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Oliver, J. F.
AU  - Solaz, C.
AU  - Llosa, G.
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - Performance evaluation of MACACO: a multilayer Compton camera
T2  - Phys. Med. Biol.
JO  - Physics in Medicine and Biology
SP  - 7321
EP  - 7341
VL  - 62
IS  - 18
PB  - Iop Publishing Ltd
KW  - Compton imaging
KW  - Compton camera
KW  - continuous LaBr3 crystal
KW  - silicon photomultiplier
KW  - hadron therapy
AB  - Compton imaging devices have been proposed and studied for a wide range of applications. We have developed a Compton camera prototype which can be operated with two or three detector layers based on monolithic lanthanum bromide (LaBr3) crystals coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), to be used for proton range verification in hadron therapy. In this work, we present the results obtained with our prototype in laboratory tests with radioactive sources and in simulation studies. Images of a Na-22 and an Y-88 radioactive sources have been successfully reconstructed. The full width half maximum of the reconstructed images is below 4 mm for a Na-22 source at a distance of 5 cm.
SN  - 0031-9155
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa8070
DO  - 10.1088/1361-6560/aa8070
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000408229900003
ID  - Munoz_etal2017
ER  -