UCL HEP Seminars, Vivas & Events
Seminars are generally held at 16:00 on Fridays in room A1 on the top floor of the Physics Department or — in the unlikely event of a global pandemic — online via Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
A calendar of all events in the Physics Department is available on the Physics Events Calendar page.
Please send suggestions for seminar topics and/or speakers to Matteo Agostini, Lucy Bailey, Lucian Harland-Lang, Andreas Korn and Margot MacMahon.
Upcoming Seminars, Vivas & Events
: Simon Jolly, Sonia Escribano Rodriguez & Joe Bateman (UCL) — PBT Seminar Room, UCLH Grafton Way Building
Latest Developments with the QuADProBe: the Quality Assurance Detector for Proton Beam Therapy
Comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) continues to underpin safe treatment with proton beam therapy. With increasing patient numbers and treatment complexity, there is greater
pressure on effective QA to minimise the time and staff resources needed for carrying out such measurements whilst increasing the accuracy and resolution of the measurements. This is
particularly true for Patient Specific Quality Assurance (PSQA): although significant time savings may be possible with a fully log file-based workflow, this places tighter
constraints on the beam QA measurements — specifically proton pencil beam position, size, dose and range in water — to ensure the subsequent accuracy of the log files.
A pair of quality assurance detectors for proton beam therapy are under development within the UCL High Energy Physics group. These detectors are intended to improve both the speed
and accuracy of the QA process, allowing QA to be carried out more quickly and comprehensively. The first detector, the Quality Assurance Range Calorimeter (QuARC), is designed to
make realtime measurements of the proton beam range in water. This also forms part of the larger Quality Assurance Detector for Proton Beam Therapy (QuADProBe) that will integrate
beam spot size and position measurements alongside range and absolute dose.
This talk will present the current status of the QuADProBe development, including recent measurements with the QuARC at the Prague PTC and UCLH. The QuARC itself will be available
during and after the talk for those attending in person to see.