Abstract

A three layer Compton telescope for dose monitoring in hadron therapy is under development at IFIC - Valencia. It will consist of three detector layers and each layer will be made of a continuous LaBr <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> crystal coupled to four Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays. A prototype made of two detector layers has already been assembled and tested. The detector layers consist of a 32×36×5 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> and 32×36×10 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sup> LaBr <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> crystal, each coupled to four SiPM arrays. The front-end electronics of each detector is based on the VATA64HDR16 application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The gamma rays coming from a <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">22</sup> Na source have been detected with the two detector layers working in time coincidence, allowing energy and position estimation.

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