HU Zhengguo1, 2 XU Zhiguo1 XIAO Guoqing1 SUN Zhiyu1 XU Hushan1 ZHANG Xueheng1, 2 MAO Ruishi1, et al. An ionization chamber developed for the facility of heavy ions therapy at IMP[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2007, (2): 139-142.
HU Zhengguo1, 2 XU Zhiguo1 XIAO Guoqing1 SUN Zhiyu1 XU Hushan1 ZHANG Xueheng1, 2 MAO Ruishi1, et al. An ionization chamber developed for the facility of heavy ions therapy at IMP[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2007, (2): 139-142.DOI:
An ionization chamber developed for the facility of heavy ions therapy at IMP
An ionization chamber (IC) with a sensitive area of 250mm×250 mm was developed for the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) heavy ion therapy facility. The gap was 10 mm between the anode and the cathode. A good plateau was seen in a large voltage range from 900V to 3000V when the IC was operated at (85.0±0.2) kPa with P10 (10% CH4+90% Ar) as flowing gas. By putting the different thicknesses of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) in front of the IC
the Bragg curve for the beam in PMMA was measured by the IC. During the test
the voltage of 2300 V was applied to the anode of the IC. The measured Bragg peak for 75 MeV/u 12C6+ ions in the PMMA was located at 13.73 mm and the FWHM was 0.19mm.