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Record W4409875120 · doi:10.1088/1361-6560/add1a7

A systematic characterization of plastic scintillation dosimeters response in magnetic fields: I. Experimental measurements

2025· article· en· W4409875120 on OpenAlexafffund
Yunuen Cervantes, Simon Lambert‐Girard, Ilias Billas, François Therriault‐Proulx, Hugo Bouchard, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysics in Medicine and Biology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques
Canadian institutionsRio Tinto (Canada)Héma-QuébecUniversité de MontréalUniversité LavalNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversité du Québec à MontréalCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de MontréalHôtel-Dieu de Québec
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMitacs
KeywordsMagnetic fieldScintillationOpticsPhysicsScintillatorDosimeterDetectorCherenkov radiationBeam (structure)Materials scienceRadiation

Abstract

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Abstract Objective. This study aims to evaluate the performance of five distinct plastic scintillation dosimeters (PSDs) in magnetic fields, as well as to validate the accuracy of the hyperspectral approach for stem-effect correction. The effect of the magnetic field on different base core materials and components within the PSDs was also investigated, as well as the effect of field size and orientation. Approach. Each PSD was placed at 5 cm depth in a water tank inside an electromagnet gap. Magnetic fields, between 0 and 1.5 T, were set to be perpendicular to the 6 MeV photon beam and to the PSD axis. The detector axis was either parallel or perpendicular to the photon beam. Different field sizes were used. The hyperspectral technique was validated and used to determine the scintillation, fluorescence and Cherenkov components at different magnetic fields. Main results. The hyperspectral method accurately removes stem effects in magnetic fields, even when calibration is performed at 0 T. The stem light yield shows good agreement with clear fiber measurements, with relative differences within 2.0%. In the parallel orientation, the corrected PSD response is highly symmetric relative to magnetic field polarity, with a maximum variation of only 0.2% from unity. Scintillation light yield increases with magnetic field by 3.6%–6.25% depending on PSD properties. Cherenkov light yield varies up to 230% and down to 0.30% of the 0 T value, depending on magnetic field polarity. The impact of magnetic fields depends primarily on the properties of the scintillator itself, with polyvinyltoluene-based probes showing greater sensitivity than polystyrene-based probes. The inclusion of a wavelength shifter has minimal on the magnetic field’s effect on scintillation light yield. Normalized scintillation light yield decreases with smaller field sizes. Significance. PSDs are well-suited for accurate dosimetry in magnetic fields, provided that accurate stem-effect correction techniques are applied. The scintillator properties play a significant role in determining the PSD’s sensitivity to magnetic fields. The hyperspectral method is a robust approach for accurate stem-effect removal in such conditions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.076
GPT teacher head0.375
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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