Quantitative read-out of Al2O3:C,Mg-based fluorescent nuclear track detectors using a commercial confocal microscope

Steffen Greilich; Julia-Maria Osinga; Martin Niklas; Florian Lauer; Felix Bestvater; Oliver Jäkel

Quantitative read-out of Al2O3:C,Mg-based fluorescent nuclear track detectors using a commercial confocal microscope

Instrumentation and Detectors 2014-07-04 v1 Medical Physics

Authors: Steffen Greilich , Julia-Maria Osinga , Martin Niklas , Florian Lauer , Felix Bestvater , Oliver Jäkel

Abstract

Fluorescent nuclear track detectors (FNTD) show great potential for applications in ion-beam therapy research, such as dosimetry, advanced beam characterization, in-vivo use or as radiobiological assay. A essential feature of FNTDs is their ability to assess the energy loss of single ions yielding for example LET estimations. This article describes the basic characterisations of FNTDs and our read-out system (a Zeiss LSM710 confocal laser scanning microscope) to enable quantative measurements of energy loss.

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fluorescent nuclear track detectors (fntd) ion-beam therapy energy loss let estimation confocal laser scanning microscope quantitative read-out

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@article{arxiv.1407.0986,
  title  = {Quantitative read-out of Al2O3:C,Mg-based fluorescent nuclear track detectors using a commercial confocal microscope},
  author = {Steffen Greilich and Julia-Maria Osinga and Martin Niklas and Florian Lauer and Felix Bestvater and Oliver Jäkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0986},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages, 10 figures

Quantitative read-out of Al2O3:C,Mg-based fluorescent nuclear track detectors using a commercial confocal microscope

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