Medical Applications Unit
The Medical Applications Unit of the Division of Scientific Instrumentation contributes with instrumentation capabilities to the development of radiation detection technologies and their imaging applications. In this section, we investigate new devices and methods that improve the geometric and temporal resolution of position sensitive detectors.
We develop simulation tools for radiation transport using the Monte Carlo method (GAMOS / Geant4). Its applications extend to various fields of Medical Physics: nuclear medicine detectors (PET, SPECT, Compton Camera), radiotherapy (teleterapia with photons or electrons, brachytherapy, proton therapy) and radiological protection (calculation of shielding, activation, spectrometry detectors ), as well as other fields of Physics.
Other objectives of the Unit are: the calculation of shields for radioisotope-producing accelerators and the design, construction and characterization of targets used in them.
We have the IR-02 radioactive installation for testing our detectors with encapsulated radioactive sources. We also collaborate with other Ciemat radioactive facilities and external entities for the characterization of detectors with non-encapsulated sources and for the validation of target prototypes designed and built in the Unit.
We develop simulation tools for radiation transport using the Monte Carlo method (GAMOS / Geant4). Its applications extend to various fields of Medical Physics: nuclear medicine detectors (PET, SPECT, Compton Camera), radiotherapy (teleterapia with photons or electrons, brachytherapy, proton therapy) and radiological protection (calculation of shielding, activation, spectrometry detectors ), as well as other fields of Physics.
Other objectives of the Unit are: the calculation of shields for radioisotope-producing accelerators and the design, construction and characterization of targets used in them.
We have the IR-02 radioactive installation for testing our detectors with encapsulated radioactive sources. We also collaborate with other Ciemat radioactive facilities and external entities for the characterization of detectors with non-encapsulated sources and for the validation of target prototypes designed and built in the Unit.
