• 3D Radiation Detectors: Charge Collection Characterisation and Applicability of Technology for Microdosimetry 

      Tran, Linh T.; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Kok, Angela; Summanwar, Anand; Hansen, Thor-Erik; Da Via, Cinzia; Reinhard, Mark I.; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      A study of charge collection in SINTEF 3D active edge silicon detectors was carried out at ANSTO using Ion Beam InducedCharge (IBIC) technique.An IBIC study has shown that several different geometries of 3D detectors have ...
    • A solid-state microdosimeter for dose and radiation qualty monitoring for astronauts in space 

      Peracchi, Stefania; James, Benjamin; Tran, Linh T.; Bolst, David; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Davis, Jeremy; Guatelli, Susanna; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Kok, Angela; Povoli, Marco; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents a study of the response of the silicon on insulator (SOI) microdosimeter with 3-dimensional (3D) sensitive volumes (SV) to 400 MeV/u 16O and 500 MeV/u 56Fe ions mimicking Galactic Cosmic Rays outside ...
    • In-field and out-of-file application in 12C ion therapy using fully 3D silicon microdosimeters 

      Tran, Linh T.; Chartier, Lachlan; Bolst, David; Davis, Jeremy; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Pogossov, Alex; Guatelli, Susanna; Reinhard, Mark I.; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Povoli, Marco; Summanwar, Anand; Kok, Angela; Jackson, Michael; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This paper presents recent development of Silicon on Insulator (SOI) detectors for microdosimetry at the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) at the University of Wollongong. A new CMRP SOI microdosimeter design, ...
    • Medical physics aspects of the synchrotron radiation therapies: Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) and synchrotron stereotactic radiotherapy (SSRT) 

      Bräuer-Krisch, Elke; Adam, Jean-Francois; Alagoz, Enver; Bartzsch, Stefan; Crosbie, Jeff; DeWagter, Carlos; Dipuglia, Andrew; Donzelli, Mattia; Doran, Simon; Fournier, Pauline; Kalef-Ezra, John; Kok, Angela; Lerch, Michael L.F.; McErlean, Ciara; Oelfke, Uwe; Olko, Pawel; Petasecca, Marco; Povoli, Marco; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B.; Siegbahn, Erik A.; Sporea, Dan; Stugu, Bjarne (Journal article, 2015)
      Stereotactic Synchrotron Radiotherapy (SSRT) and Microbeam Radiation Therapy (MRT) are both novel approaches to treat brain tumor and potentially other tumors using synchrotron radiation. Although the techniques differ by ...
    • Predicting the Biological Effects of Human Salivary Gland Tumour Cells for Scanned 4He-, 12C-, 16O-, and 20Ne-Ion Beams Using an SOI Microdosimeter 

      Lee, Sung Hyun; Mizushima, Kota; Yonai, Shunsuke; Matsumoto, Shinnosuke; Mizuno, Hideyuki; Nakaji, Taku; Kohno, Ryosuke; Iwata, Yoshiyuki; Shirai, Toshiyuki; Pan, Vladimir; Kok, Angela; Povoli, Marco; Tran, Linh T.; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B.; Suzuki, Masao; Inaniwa, Taku (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Experimental microdosimetry along with the microdosimetric kinetic (MK) model can be utilized to predict the biological effects of ions. To predict the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of ions and the survival ...
    • Silicon 3D Microdosimeters for Advanced Quality Assurance in Particle Therapy 

      Tran, Linh T.; David, Bolst; James, Benjamin; Pan, Vladimir M.; Vohradsky, James; Peracchi, Stefania; Chartier, Lachlan; Debrot, Emily; Gautelli, Susanna; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Pastuovic, Zeljko; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela; Inaniwa, Taku; Lee, Sung Hyun; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The Centre for Medical Radiation Physics introduced the concept of Silicon On Insulator (SOI) microdosimeters with 3-Dimensional (3D) cylindrical sensitive volumes (SVs) mimicking the dimensions of cells in an array. Several ...
    • SOI Thin Microdosimeter Detectors for Low Energy Ions and Radiation Damage Studies 

      James, B.; Tran, Linh T.; Vohradsky, J.; Bolst, David; Pan, Vladimir M.; Carr, M; Guatelli, Susanna; Pogossov, Alex; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Reinhard, Mark I.; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela; Hinde, D; Dasgupta, M; Stuchbery, A.E.; Perevertaylo, Vladimir I.; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The responses of two silicon on insulator (SOI) 3-D microdosimeters developed by the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics were investigated with a range of different low energy ions, with high linear energy transfer (LET). ...
    • SOI Thin Microdosimeters for High LET Single Event Upset Studies in Fe, O, Xe and Cocktail Ion Beam Fields 

      James, Benjamin; Tran, Linh T.; Bolst, David; Perrachi, Stefania; Davis, Jeremy; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Guatelli, Susanna; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela; Goethem, Marc-Jan; Nancarrow, Mitchell; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Jackson, Michael; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The response of a 5 μm thin silicon on insulator (SOI) 3D microdosimeter was investigated for single event upset applications by measuring the LET of different high LET ions. The charge collection characteristics of the ...
    • The relative biological effectiveness for carbon, nitrogen and oxygen ion beams using passive and scanning techniques evaluated with fully 3D silicon microdosimeters 

      Tran, Linh T.; Bolst, David; Guatelli, S.; Pogossov, A.; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Chartier, Lachlan; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Reinhard, Mark I.; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela; Perevertaylo, Vladimir I.; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Kanai, T; Jackson, Michael; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background: The aim of this study was to measure the microdosimetric distributions of a carbon pencil-beam scanning (PBS) and passive scattering system as well as to evaluate the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of ...
    • Thin Silicon Microdosimeter utilizing 3D MEMS Fabrication Technology: Charge Collection Study and its application in mixed radiation fields 

      Tran, Linh T.; Chartier, Lachlan; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Bolst, David; Povoli, Marco; Summanwar, Anand; Kok, Angela; Pogossov, A.; Petasecca, Marco; Guatelli, S.; Reinhard, Mark I.; Lerch, Michael; Nancarrow, Mitchell; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Jackson, Michael; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      New 10-μm-thick silicon microdosimeters utilizing 3-D technology have been developed and investigated in this paper. The TCAD simulations were carried out to understand the electrical properties of the microdosimeters’ ...
    • Validation of Geant4 for silicon microdosimetry in heavy ion therapy 

      Bolst, David; Gautelli, Susanna; Tran, Linh T.; Davis, Jeremy; Chartier, Lachlan; Prokopovich, Dale A.; Pogossov, Alex; Reinhard, Mark I.; Petasecca, Marco; Lerch, Michael L.F.; Matsufuji, Naruhiro; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela; Summanwar, Anand; Jackson, Michael; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Microdosimetry is a particularly powerful method to estimate the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of any mixed radiation field. This is particularly convenient for therapeutic heavy ion therapy (HIT) beams, referring ...
    • Validation of linear energy transfer computed in a Monte Carlo dose engine of a commercial treatment planning system 

      Wagenaar, David; Tran, Linh T.; Meijers, Arturs; Marmitt, Gabriel Guterres; Souris, Kevin; Bolst, David; Povoli, Marco; Kok, Angela; Traneus, Erik; Van Goethem, Marc-Jan; Langendijk, Johannes A.; Rosenfeld, Anatoly B.; Both, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of protons is highly variable and difficult to quantify. However, RBE is related to the local ionization density, which can be related to the physical measurable dose weighted ...