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Deep-learning Segmentation of Small Volumes in CT images for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
Jianxin Zhou, Kadishe Fejza, Massimiliano Salvatori +3
Our understanding of organs at risk is progressing to include physical small tissues such as coronary arteries and the radiosensitivities of many small organs and tissues are high.…
Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs
John Leland, Ming Fang, Satwik Pani +3
Fast electronic readout for high-channel density scintillator-based systems is needed for radiation tracking and imaging in a wide range of applications, including nuclear physics,…
Statistical modelling and Bayesian inversion for a Compton imaging system: application to radioactive source localisation
Cecilia Tarpau, Ming Fang, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis +3
This paper presents a statistical forward model for a Compton imaging system, called Compton imager. This system, under development at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign,…
Rotation-Invariant Rapid TRISO-Fueled Pebble Identification Based on Feature Matching and Point Cloud Registration
Ming Fang, Angela Di Fulvio
Pebble bed reactor (PBR) relying on TRISO-fueled pebbles is one of the most promising Gen-IV reactor designs because of intrinsic safety and thermal efficiency. Fuel pebbles flow t…
Simulation of Charge Collection in a Boron-coated Straw Detector for Emerging Fuel Cycles
Ming Fang, Angela Di Fulvio
Tristructural-isotropic (TRISO) fuel is currently one of the most mature fuel types for candidate advanced reactor types, namely pebble bed reactors (PBRs). In PBRs, TRISO-fueled p…
Feasibility of Neutron Coincidence Counting for Spent Fuel
Ming Fang, Angela Di Fulvio
High-temperature gas reactors rely on TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel for enhanced fission product retention. Accurate fuel characterization would improve monitoring of effici…
Generalized Method for the Optimization of Pulse Shape Discrimination Parameters
Jianxin Zhou, Abdullah Abdulaziz, Yoann Altmann +1
Organic scintillators exhibit fast timing, high detection efficiency for fast neutrons and pulse shape discrimination (PSD) capability. PSD is essential in mixed radiation fields,…
Boron Coated Straw-based Neutron Multiplicity Counter for Neutron Interrogation of TRISO Fueled Pebbles
Ming Fang, Jeff Lacy, Athanasios Athanasiades +1
Pebble bed reactors (PBRs) can improve the safety and economics of the nuclear energy production. PBRs rely on TRIstructural-ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel pebbles for enhanced fission pro…
Nonproliferation and fusion power plants
Michael Y. Hua, Sachin S. Desai, Amy C. Roma +3
This is an abridged abstract; please see the full paper. This paper evaluates whether the nuclear nonproliferation regime applies to fusion power plants and finds that, legally, th…
Light Output Quenching in Response to Deuterium-ions and Alpha Particles and Pulse Shape Discrimination in Deuterated Trans-stilbene
J. Zhou, N. Gaughan, F. D. Becchetti +4
We characterized the light output response of a new 140 cm3 stilbene-d12 crystal up to 14.1 MeV neutron energies using a coincidence neutron scattering system. We also characterize…
Characterization of stilbene-d12 for neutron spectroscopy without time of flight
N. Gaughan, J. Zhou, F. D. Becchetti +4
We have experimentally characterized the light-output response of a deuterated trans-stilbene (stilbene-d12) crystal to quasi-monoenergetic neutrons in the 0.8 to 4.4 MeV energy ra…
Application of Monte Carlo algorithms to cardiac imaging reconstruction
J. Zhou, A. G. Leja, M. Salvatori +2
Monte Carlo algorithms have a growing impact on nuclear medicine reconstruction processes. One of the main limitations of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is the effective mitiga…
Effect of natural gamma background radiation on portal monitor radioisotope unmixing
Matthew Weiss, Ming Fang, Yoann Altmann +2
National security relies on several layers of protection. One of the most important is the traffic control at borders and ports that exploits Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) to de…
Quantitative Imaging and Automated Fuel Pin Identification for Passive Gamma Emission Tomography
Ming Fang, Yoann Altmann, Daniele Della Latta +2
Compliance of member States to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is monitored through nuclear safeguards. The Passive Gamma Emission Tomography system is a nov…
Quantitative and Three-Dimensional Assessment of Holdup Material
N. Rebei, M. Fang, A. Di Fulvio
Nuclear material deposited in equipment, transfer lines, and ventilation systems of a processing facility is usually referred to as holdup. In this work, we propose to use an array…