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Md. Rafiqul Islam, Mehrdad Shahmohammadi Beni, Shigeki Ito, Shinichi Gotoh, Taiga Yamaya and Hiroshi Watabe
Proton range monitoring and verification is important to enhance the effectiveness of treatment by ensuring that the correct dose is delivered to the correct location. Upon proton irradiation, different positron emitting radioisotopes are produced by the...
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Isabelle Schilling, Claus Maximilian Bäcker, Christian Bäumer, Carina Behrends, Marius Hötting, Jana Hohmann, Kevin Kröninger, Beate Timmermann and Jens Weingarten
The accurate measurement of the beam range in the frame of quality assurance (QA) is a requirement for clinical use of a proton therapy machine. Conventionally used detectors mostly estimate the range by measuring the depth dose distribution of the proto...
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César Jesús-Valls, Marc Granado-González, Thorsten Lux, Tony Price and Federico Sánchez
Recently, we proposed a novel range detector concept named ASTRA. ASTRA is optimized to accurately measure (better than 1%) the residual energy of protons with kinetic energies in the range from tens to a few hundred MeVs at a very high rate of O(" role=...
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Anna Baratto-Roldán, María del Carmen Jiménez-Ramos, Maria Cristina Battaglia, Javier García-López, María Isabel Gallardo, Miguel A. Cortés-Giraldo and José M. Espino
A feasibility study of an experimental setup for the irradiation of biological samples at the cyclotron facility installed at the National Centre of Accelerators (Seville, Spain) is presented. This cyclotron, which counts on an external beam line for int...
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Xuejian Han and Manzhou Zhang
A beam-expanding method that can achieve uniform proton beams for FLASH therapy is provided.
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Stef Depuydt, Lucy Traub, Gilles Van Eygen, Santosh Kumar, Georg Held and Bart Van der Bruggen
In this work, homogeneous, thin-film proton exchange membranes (PEMs) with superior proton conductivities and high methanol rejection were fabricated via a facile synthesis procedure. Sulfonated polyether ether ketone (sPEEK) was crosslinked via a Friede...
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Huanxin Zhang, Shenyi Zhang, Guohong Shen, Xin Zhang, Weiguo Zong, Jianguang Guo, Anqin Chen, Liguo Zhang and Ruyi Zhang
This work introduces the instrument design of the medium-energy proton detector (MEPD, detection range: 30 keV?5 MeV) mounted on the Chinese Fengyun-4B (FY-4B) satellite. Compared to a similar detector on the Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) satellite, this instrument...
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Bo Deng, Xuefeng Zhang, Cong Yin, Yuqin Luo and Hao Tang
The thermal management of proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems plays a significant role in a stack?s lifetime, performance, and reliability. However, it is challenging to manage the thermal system precisely due to the multiple coupling relationship...
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Matteo Di Virgilio, Andrea Basso Peressut, Valeria Arosio, Alessandro Arrigoni, Saverio Latorrata and Giovanni Dotelli
Despite being the most employed polymer electrolyte for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), Nafion® has several limitations: expensiveness, poor performance when exposed to temperatures higher than 80 °C, and its potential as a source of enviro...
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Huanxin Zhang, Xiaoxin Zhang, Jinhua Wang, Cong Huang, Jiawei Li, Weiguo Zong, Guohong Shen, Shenyi Zhang, Yong Yang and Pengfei Zhang
This article introduces the instrument design of the medium energy proton detector (energy range: 30 keV?5 MeV) mounted on the FY-3E satellite. Through the design and optimization of the sensor signal processing circuit, the anti-electromagnetic interfer...
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Zhiqian Zhang, Lei Liu, Lin Quan, Guohong Shen, Rui Zhang, Yuqi Jiang, Yuxiong Xue and Xianghua Zeng
Accurately predicting proton flux in the space radiation environment is crucial for satellite in-orbit management and space science research. This paper proposes a proton flux prediction method based on a hybrid neural network. This method is a predictiv...
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Guohong Shen, Xiaoxin Zhang, Jinhua Wang, Cong Huang, Jiawei Li, Shenyi Zhang, Xianguo Zhang, Yong Yang, Pengfei Zhang and Yueqiang Sun
According to the characteristics of the LEO space particles radiation environment of China?s Fengyun No. 3 (FY-3) polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, in order to monitor the characteristics, and space?time distribution of charged particle radiation...
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Anatoly Kalyakin, Alexander Volkov and Liliya Dunyushkina
An amperometric sensor based on CaZr0.95Sc0.05O3-d (CZS) proton-conducting oxide for the measurement of hydrogen concentration in air was designed and tested. Dense CZS ceramics were fabricated through uniaxial pressing the powder synthesized by the soli...
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Shixin Xu, Robert Eisenberg, Zilong Song and Huaxiong Huang
This study introduces a mathematical model for electrolytic chemical reactions, employing an energy variation approach grounded in classical thermodynamics. Our model combines electrostatics and chemical reactions within well-defined energetic and dissip...
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Hsuan Yang and Cherng-Yuan Lin
There are excellent offshore wind resources in the ocean off the west coast of Taiwan, and renewable offshore wind power has been actively developed in recent years. This study intends to establish a cost-effectiveness assessment model to compare the pol...
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Kaili Yuan, Xuehua Liu and Lei Bi
To improve the performance and overcome the processing difficulties of La0.99Ca0.01NbO4 proton-conducting ceramic oxide, external and internal strategies were used, respectively, to modify La0.99Ca0.01NbO4 with NiO. The external strategy refers to the us...
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Corrado Spatola, Rocco Luca Emanuele Liardo, Roberto Milazzotto, Luigi Raffaele, Vincenzo Salamone, Antonio Basile, Pietro Valerio Foti, Stefano Palmucci, Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone, Giacomo Cuttone, Andrea Russo, Teresio Avitabile, Michele Reibaldi, Antonio Longo, Giuseppe Broggi, Vincenza Bonfiglio, Rosario Caltabiano, Stefano Pergolizzi and Floriana Arena
Conjunctival melanoma is a rare neoplasia, whose therapeutic management is generally of ophthalmological relevance, through radical surgical resection. The high incidence of local relapses after surgery, has made it necessary to combine various types of ...
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The main objective of this paper is to develop a dynamic emulator of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer (EL) through an equivalent electrical model. Experimental investigations have highlighted the capacitive effect of EL when subjecting to dy...
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Andrew K.H. Robertson, Andrew Lobbezoo, Louis Moskven, Paul Schaffer and Cornelia Hoehr
With recent impressive clinical results of targeted alpha therapy using 225Ac, significant effort has been directed towards providing a reliable and sufficient supply of 225Ac to enable widespread using of 225Ac-radiopharmaceuticals. TRIUMF has begun pro...
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Roland Schnuerer, Jacinta Yap, Hao Zhang, Tomasz Cybulski, Tony Smith, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Girard, Tomasz Szumlak and Carsten Welsch
Knowledge of the beam properties in proton therapy through beam monitoring is essential, ensuring an effective dose delivery to the patient. In clinical practice, currently used interceptive ionisation chambers require daily calibration and suffer from a...
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