Proton Calorimetry/Meetings/2018/08/29

Minutes for UCL Proton Calorimetry Meeting, 29th August 2018 (D12, Physics & Astronomy, UCL)

Present

Matthieu Hentz, Simon Jolly, Saad Shaikh

MH:

• Running simulations to improve pCT image reconstruction using Simon Rit's code:
  • Reasonably sure Simon used 4*10^10 protons for reconstruction.
  • Corresponds to 900 per mm^2 per projection with 720 projections.
  • 56.25 million protons per projection.
  • Using 2.5 million per projection took more than 2 days...
• To Do:
  • Investigate use of UCL Legion/Myriad cluster to simulate much larger proton numbers.
  • Rebuild phantom in pure GEANT4 to remove need for GATE.

SS:

• Currently refining code for waveform reconstruction:
  • Building GUI in ROOT.
  • PRaVDA tracker code for reading out hits obtained from Dan Walker.
• Will plan a visit to Birmingham from late September onwards.
• To Do:
  • Familiarise with PRaVDA tracker reconstruction code.