SBAM (Scienze di Base Applicate alla Medicina) laboratory
Gruppo di Lavoro
Vincenzo Patera
Alessio Sarti
Adalberto Sciubba
Angelo Schiavi
Marco Toppi
The SBAM (Scienze di Base Applicate alla Medicina) laboratory is a facility hosting the tools and necessary equipment for the development of state of the art particle and radiation detectors with applications in the Medical Physics field. Several detector, of different radiation types, are available in the laboratory or can be assembled in the SBAI mechanical workshop. Figure 1 shows the laboratory during the assembly and test of a multi-purpose detector setup aiming to the simultaneous detection of prompt photons, PET annihilation photons and charged fragments produced by the interactions of carbon ion beams used in particle therapy treatments with thick targets.
Figure 1: SBAM laboratory during the assembly of the table-top experiment performed at Heidelberg in 2014. The experiment setup foresaw the simultaneous detection of prompt photons, PET annihilation photons and charged fragments produced by the interactions of carbon ion beams used in particle therapy treatments with thick targets.
The SBAM lab is equipped with different types of detectors (see Figure 2 for example) that can be used to measure incoming radiation of the energy of interest for Medical Applications, especially in Particle Therapy. The full data detection chain can be exploited within the SBAM facility: the detector construction and test, the electronics development, the readout implementation and the data acquisition and analysis can be performed using the hardware and software tools available.
Figure 2: (Left) Plastic scintillator detector optimised for ToF measurements. The readout is performed using fibres.(Right) Dose Profiler detector: a charged particles tracker optimised for the monitoring of Particle Therapy treatments performed using carbon ions.