TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schütze, Paul
AU  - Abel, Aenne
AU  - Burkart, Florian
AU  - De Silva, Malinda
AU  - Dinter, Hannes
AU  - Dojan, Kevin
AU  - Herkert, Adrian
AU  - Jaster-Merz, Sonja Meike
AU  - Kellermeier, Max
AU  - Kuropka, Willi
AU  - Mayet, Frank
AU  - Ruiz Daza, Sara
AU  - Spannagel, Simon
AU  - Vinatier, Thomas
AU  - Wennloef, Hakan Lennart Olov
TI  - electronCT - An Imaging Technique Using Very-high Energy Electrons
JO  - Frontiers in physics
VL  - 12
SN  - 2296-424X
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - Frontiers Media
M1  - PUBDB-2024-04847
SP  - 1454854
PY  - 2024
N1  - Also available from arXiv: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.20091
AB  - The electronCT technique is an imaging method based on the multiple Coulomb scattering of relativistic electrons and has potential applications in medical and industrial imaging. It utilizes a pencil beam of electrons in the very high energy electron (VHEE, 50-250 MeV) range and a single detection layer for the determination of the beam profile. The technique constitutes a projectional, two-dimensional imaging method and thus also qualifies for the tomographic reconstruction of samples. Given the simplicity of the technical setup and its location behind the sample, the electronCT technique has potential synergies with VHEE radiotherapy, making use of the same electron source for both treatment and diagnostics and thus being a candidate for in situ imaging and patient localization. At the same time, several technical challenges arise from the measurement technique when applied for the imaging of living beings. Measurements performed at the ARES linear particle accelerator at an electron energy of 155 MeV using a mouse phantom and a Timepix3 silicon pixel detector assembly demonstrate the feasibility of this technique. Both projectional and tomographic reconstructions are presented and the potential and limits of the technology are discussed.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001357695000001
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fphy.2024.1454854
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/611194
ER  -