Azad Yazgan
Technical University of Dortmund
4 Papers
Azad Yazgan is an academic researcher from Technical University of Dortmund. The author has contributed to research in topics: Titanium & Proton. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications.
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Papers
Measurement of nuclear activation cross sections of protons on natural carbon for proton beam energies between 100 and 220 MeV
Claus Maximilian Bäcker,Christian Bäumer,Marcel Gerhardt,Kevin Kröninger,Christian Nitsch,Hilda Milani Siregar,Beate Timmermann,Nico Verbeek,Jens Weingarten,Jörg Wulff,Azad Yazgan +10 more
TL;DR: Measurements of nuclear activation cross sections from carbon can be used for proton fluence calculation in proton therapy by measurements of the activity after irradiation by measuring the cross sections after gamma-ray spectrometry measurements.
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Towards using secondary gamma-rays from proton-induced radioactivation of titanium implants for off-line field verification
Claus Maximilian Bäcker,Christian Bäumer,Aaron Bley,Pedro Fragoso Costa,Marcel Gerhardt,Ken Herrmann,Samantha Kauer,Kevin Kröninger,Christian Nitsch,Hilda Milani Siregar,Beate Timmermann,Nico Verbeek,Jens Weingarten,Jörg Wulff,Azad Yazgan +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the radioactivation of titanium during proton therapy using a low-level gamma-ray spectrometry system at the Dortmund Low Background Facility (DLBF).
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Proton Beam Range Verification with Secondary Radiation from Titanium Implants
Claus Maximilian Bäcker,Christian Bäumer,Aaron Bley,Pedro Fragoso Costa,Marcel Gerhardt,Ken Herrmann,Samantha Kauer,Kevin Kröninger,Christian Nitsch,Hilda Milani Siregar,Beate Timmermann,Azad Yazgan +11 more
- 01 Oct 2019
TL;DR: The first studies show the potential of titanium for proton beam range verification, which requires a precise knowledge of the produced radionuclides from titanium after the irradiation with protons and the corresponding activation cross sections.
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Measurement of absolute activation cross sections from carbon and aluminum for proton therapy
Christian Bäumer,Claus Maximilian Bäcker,Marcel Gerhardt,Erik Grusell,Benjamin Koska,Kevin Kröninger,Christian Nitsch,Hannah Rullkötter,Hilda Milani Siregar,Beate Timmermann,Nico Verbeek,Jörg Wulff,Azad Yazgan +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a broad, quasi-monochromatic proton field generated with the pencil-beam scanning technique was used to measure nuclear cross sections from natC and 27Al which serve as reference targets regarding radioactivation in proton therapy.