Discovery of the luminescence of water during irradiation of radiation at a lower energy than the Cherenkov light threshold

S Yamamoto - Radiological Physics and Technology, 2021 - Springer
It is widely believed that light is not emitted in water during irradiation of radiation at energies
lower than the Cherenkov light threshold. Contrary to this consensus, we discovered that …

Prediction of dose distribution from luminescence image of water using a deep convolutional neural network for particle therapy

T Yabe, S Yamamoto, M Oda, K Mori, T Toshito… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We recently obtained nearly the same depth profiles of luminescence images of
water as dose for protons by subtracting the Cerenkov light component emitted by …

Three-dimensional (3D) dose distribution measurements of proton beam using a glass plate

R Horita, S Yamamoto, K Yogo… - Biomedical Physics & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The measurements of the three-dimensional (3D) dose distribution of proton beams in water
are critical for proton therapy for quality assessment (QA). Although ionization chambers are …

Background luminescence in x-ray luminescence computed tomography (XLCT) imaging

MC Lun, C Li - Applied optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
X-ray luminescence computed tomography (XLCT) is an emerging hybrid imaging modality.
It has been recently reported that materials such as water, tissue, or even air can generate …

Radioluminescence by synchrotron radiation with lower energy than the Cherenkov light threshold in water

Y Hirano, M Komori, D Onoda, T Nagae… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Radioluminescence by protons and carbon ions of energy lower than the Cherenkov
threshold (∼ 260 keV) in water has been observed. However, the origin of the luminescence …

[图书][B] X-ray Luminescence Computed Tomography for Small Animal Imaging

MC Lun - 2020 - search.proquest.com
High-resolution imaging modalities play a critical role for advancing biomedical sciences.
Within the last decade, x-ray induced luminescence imaging has emerged and …

Reduction of parallax-error effect to luminescence imaging of water for dose estimation of therapeutic proton beam

M Komori, K Senga, Y Kitao, R Horita, T Toshito - 2020 - epos.myesr.org
Luminescence of water was measured by a cooled charge-coupled device (CCD) camera
during pencil-beam and uniform-field proton irradiation with energy lower than the …