J. Weingarten
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: A Two-Plane Proton Radiography System Using ATLAS IBL Pixel-Detector Modules
A Two-Plane Proton Radiography System Using ATLAS IBL Pixel-Detector Modules Open
Accurate knowledge of a patient’s anatomy during every treatment fraction in proton therapy is an important prerequisite to ensure a correct dose deposition in the target volume. Adaptive proton therapy aims to detect those changes and adj…
View article: Simulation of CMOS strip sensors
Simulation of CMOS strip sensors Open
In high-energy physics, there is a need to investigate silicon sensor concepts that offer large-area coverage and cost-efficiency for particle tracking detectors. Sensors based on CMOS imaging technology present a promising alternative sil…
View article: Proton radiography for adaptive radiotherapy using ATLAS FE-I4 detectors
Proton radiography for adaptive radiotherapy using ATLAS FE-I4 detectors Open
Due to the physical principles of the energy deposition of charged particles in matter, cancer treatment using proton therapy allows more conformal dose deposition in the tumour with respect to conventional photon radiotherapy, which leads…
View article: TCAD simulation of stitching for passive CMOS strip detectors
TCAD simulation of stitching for passive CMOS strip detectors Open
Most of the tracking detectors for high energy particle experiments are filled with silicon detectors since they are radiation hard, they can give very small spatial resolution and they can take advantage of the silicon electronics foundri…
View article: Passive CMOS Strip Sensors – Characterisation, Simulation and Test Beam Results
Passive CMOS Strip Sensors – Characterisation, Simulation and Test Beam Results Open
In the passive CMOS Strips Project, strip sensors were designed by a collaboration of German institutes and produced at LFoundry in 150 nm technology. Up to five individual reticles were connected by stitching at the foundry in order to ob…
View article: TCAD Simulation of Stitching for Passive CMOS Strip Detectors
TCAD Simulation of Stitching for Passive CMOS Strip Detectors Open
Most of the tracking detectors for high energy particle experiments are filled with silicon detectors since they are radiation hard, they can give very small spatial resolution and they can take advantage of the silicon electronics foundri…
View article: Characterisation and simulation of stitched CMOS strip sensors
Characterisation and simulation of stitched CMOS strip sensors Open
In high-energy physics, there is a need to investigate alternative silicon\nsensor concepts that offer cost-efficient, large-area coverage. Sensors based\non CMOS imaging technology present such a silicon sensor concept for tracking\ndetec…
View article: Passive CMOS Strip Detectors Response with Alpha Particles
Passive CMOS Strip Detectors Response with Alpha Particles Open
Current high energy particle trackers use mostly silicon detectors as they give very good spatial resolution, they are radiation hard, easy to integrate in electronic circuits and can take advantage of silicon technology development for th…
View article: Characterisation, simulation and test beam data analysis of stitched passive CMOS strip sensors
Characterisation, simulation and test beam data analysis of stitched passive CMOS strip sensors Open
In the passive CMOS Strips Project, strip sensors were designed at the University of Bonn and produced by LFoundry in 150 nm technology, with an additional backside processing from IZM Berlin. Up to five individual reticules were connected…
View article: Accurate and Fast Deep Learning Dose Prediction for a Preclinical Microbeam Radiation Therapy Study Using Low-Statistics Monte Carlo Simulations
Accurate and Fast Deep Learning Dose Prediction for a Preclinical Microbeam Radiation Therapy Study Using Low-Statistics Monte Carlo Simulations Open
Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) utilizes coplanar synchrotron radiation beamlets and is a proposed treatment approach for several tumor diagnoses that currently have poor clinical treatment outcomes, such as gliosarcomas. Monte Carlo (MC…
View article: Accurate and fast deep learning dose prediction for a preclinical microbeam radiation therapy study using low-statistics Monte Carlo simulations
Accurate and fast deep learning dose prediction for a preclinical microbeam radiation therapy study using low-statistics Monte Carlo simulations Open
Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) utilizes coplanar synchrotron radiation beamlets and is a proposed treatment approach for several tumour diagnoses that currently have poor clinical treatment outcomes, such as gliosarcomas. Prescription d…
View article: Erratum: Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)
Erratum: Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate) Open
View article: Measuring the Beam Energy in Proton Therapy Facilities Using ATLAS IBL Pixel Detectors
Measuring the Beam Energy in Proton Therapy Facilities Using ATLAS IBL Pixel Detectors Open
The accurate measurement of the beam range in the frame of quality assurance (QA) is a requirement for clinical use of a proton therapy machine. Conventionally used detectors mostly estimate the range by measuring the depth dose distributi…
View article: A step towards treatment planning for microbeam radiation therapy: fast peak and valley dose predictions with 3D U-Nets
A step towards treatment planning for microbeam radiation therapy: fast peak and valley dose predictions with 3D U-Nets Open
Fast and accurate dose predictions are one of the bottlenecks in treatment planning for microbeam radiation therapy (MRT). In this paper, we propose a machine learning (ML) model based on a 3D U-Net. Our approach predicts separately the la…
View article: Characterization of pixelated silicon detectors for daily quality assurance measurements in proton therapy
Characterization of pixelated silicon detectors for daily quality assurance measurements in proton therapy Open
The advanced imaging and delivery techniques in proton therapy allow conformal high-dose irradiation of the target volume with high accuracy using pencil beam scanning or beam shaping apertures. These irradiation methods increasingly inclu…
View article: Small beams, fast predictions: a comparison of machine learning dose prediction models for proton minibeam therapy
Small beams, fast predictions: a comparison of machine learning dose prediction models for proton minibeam therapy Open
Background Dose calculations for novel radiotherapy cancer treatments such as proton minibeam radiation therapy is often done using full Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. As MC simulations can be very time consuming for this kind of applicatio…
View article: The radiosensitizing effect of platinum nanoparticles in proton irradiations is not caused by an enhanced proton energy deposition at the macroscopic scale
The radiosensitizing effect of platinum nanoparticles in proton irradiations is not caused by an enhanced proton energy deposition at the macroscopic scale Open
Objective. Due to the radiosensitizing effect of biocompatible noble metal nanoparticles (NPs), their administration is considered to potentially increase tumor control in radiotherapy. The underlying physical, chemical and biological mech…
View article: Characterization of pixelated silicon detectors for daily quality assurance measurements in proton therapy
Characterization of pixelated silicon detectors for daily quality assurance measurements in proton therapy Open
The advanced imaging and delivery techniques in proton therapy allow conformal high-dose irradiation of the target volume with high accuracy using pencil beam scanning or beam shaping apertures. These irradiation methods increasingly inclu…
View article: Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in the LEGEND experiment
Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in the LEGEND experiment Open
Polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial plastic which is interesting to the physics community as a wavelength-shifting scintillator. Recently, PEN structures with excellent radiopurity have been successfully produced using injectio…
View article: Fast and accurate dose predictions for novel radiotherapy treatments in heterogeneous phantoms using conditional 3D‐UNet generative adversarial networks
Fast and accurate dose predictions for novel radiotherapy treatments in heterogeneous phantoms using conditional 3D‐UNet generative adversarial networks Open
Purpose Novel radiotherapy techniques like synchrotron X‐ray microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) require fast dose distribution predictions that are accurate at the sub‐mm level, especially close to tissue/bone/air interfaces. Monte Carlo (M…
View article: Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in the LEGEND experiment
Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in the LEGEND experiment Open
PEN is an industrial polyester plastic interesting for the physics community as a new type of wavelength shifting plastic scintillator. Recently, PEN structures with good radio-purity and attenuation length have been successfully produced …
View article: Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate)
Production and validation of scintillating structural components from low-background Poly(ethylene naphthalate) Open
Poly Ethylene Naphthalate (PEN) is an industrial polymer plastic which is investigated as a low background, transparent, scintillating and wavelength shifting structural material. PEN scintillates in the blue region and has excellent mecha…
View article: Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at √s=13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in p p collisions at √s=13 TeV using the ATLAS detector Open
Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses proton--proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb⁻¹ at √s=13 Te…
View article: Experimental consolidation and absolute measurement of the $$^\text {nat}$$C(p,x)$$^{11}$$C nuclear activation cross section at 100 MeV for particle therapy physics
Experimental consolidation and absolute measurement of the $$^\text {nat}$$C(p,x)$$^{11}$$C nuclear activation cross section at 100 MeV for particle therapy physics Open
The $$^\text {nat}$$ C(p,x) $$^{11}$$ C reaction has been discussed in detail in the past [EXFOR database, Otuka et al. (Nuclear Data Sheets 120:272–276, 2014)]. However, measured activation cross sections by independent experiments …
View article: Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments
Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments Open
PEN is an industrial polyester plastic which has become interesting for the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator. PEN scintillates in the blue regime, which is ideal for most photosensor devices. In addition, PEN has exc…
View article: Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments
Usage of PEN as self-vetoing structural material in low background experiments Open
PEN is an industrial polyester plastic which has become interesting for the physics community as a new type of plastic scintillator. PEN scintillates in the blue regime, which is ideal for most photosensor devices. In addition, PEN has exc…
View article: Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments Open
View article: EUDAQ—a data acquisition software framework for common beam telescopes
EUDAQ—a data acquisition software framework for common beam telescopes Open
EUDAQ is a generic data acquisition software developed for use in conjunction with common beam telescopes at charged particle beam lines. Providing high-precision reference tracks for performance studies of new sensors, beam telescopes are…
View article: First annealing studies of irradiated silicon sensors with modified ATLAS pixel implantations
First annealing studies of irradiated silicon sensors with modified ATLAS pixel implantations Open
Planar silicon pixel sensors with modified n$^+$-implantation shapes based on the IBL pixel sensor were designed in Dortmund. The sensors with a pixel size of $250\,\mu$m $\times$ $50\,\mu$m are produced in n$^+$-in-n sensor technology. Th…
View article: Temperature scaling of reverse current generated in proton irradiated silicon bulk
Temperature scaling of reverse current generated in proton irradiated silicon bulk Open
The value of the scaling parameter $E_{\text{eff}}$ of the temperature dependence for current generated in silicon bulk is investigated for highly irradiated devices. Measurements of devices irradiated to fluences above $1 \times 10^{15} n…