Publications

2024

L. Kelleter, S. Schmidt, M. Subramanian, L. Marek, C. Granja, J. Jakubek, O. Jäkel, J. Debus, M. Martisikova

Characterisation of a customised 4-chip Timepix3 module for charged-particle tracking Radiation Measurements

Volume: 173
Article Number: 107086
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2024.107086

D. Hladik, J. Jakubek, K. Sykorova, T. Cerna, D. Doubravova, M. Urban and S. Polansky

Optimizing and characterizing the Timepix2 hybrid pixel detector: enhancing performance and precision for scientific and industrial applications Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 19
Article Number: C01007
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/C01007

C Granja, R Uhlar, D Poklop, P Alexa, V Zach, C Oancea, L Marek

Directional-sensitive wide field-of-view monitoring of high-intensity proton beams by spectral tracking of scattered particles with scattering foil and miniaturized radiation camera Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 19
Article Number: C02054
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/02/C02054

B. Zaťko, A. Šagátová, L. Hrubčín, E. Kováčová, A. Novák, N. Kurucová, Š. Polansky and J. Jakůbek

Imaging and spectrometric performance of SiC Timepix3 radiation camera Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 19
Article Number: C01003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/C01003

C. Granja, J. Solc, J. Gajewski, A. Rucinski, P. Stasica, M. Rydygier, L. Marek, C. Oancea

Composition and Spectral Characterization of Mixed-Radiation Fields with Enhanced Discrimination by Quantum Imaging Detection IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volume: 71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2024.3369972

L Marek, C Granja, J Jakubek, J Ingerle, D Turecek, M Vuolo, C Oancea

Data Processing Engine (DPE): data analysis tool for particle tracking and mixed radiation field characterization with pixel detectors Timepix Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 19
Article Number: C04026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/19/04/C04026

C. Oancea, L. Marek, M. Vuolo, J. Jakubek, E. Soharová, J. Ingerle, D. Turecek, M. Andrlik, V. Vondracek, T. Baca, M. Sabia, R. Kaderabek, J. Gajewski, A. Rucinski, S. Stasica, C. Granja

TraX Engine: Advanced Processing of Radiation Data Acquired by Timepix Detectors in Space, Medical, Educational and Imaging Applications

Volume:
Article Number:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.10242

Marek Kotrlý, Josef Uher, Jan Jakubek, Ivana Turková, Petr Čejka

Development of a Multimodal Robotic Device for 2D and 3D Inspection and Analysis of Objects Microscopy and Microanalysis,

Volume: 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mam/ozae044.1094

2023

Martin Urban, Ondrej Nentvich, Lukas Marek, Rene Hudec, Ladislav Sieger

Timepix3: Temperature Influence on Radiation Energy Measurement with Si Sensor (Sensors, 2023)

Volume: 23
Issue: 4
Pages: 2201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23042201

Novak, Andrej; Granja, Carlos; Sagatova, Andrea; Jakubek, Jan; Zatko, Bohumir; Vondracek, Vladimir; Andrlik, Michal; Zach, Vaclav; Polansky, Stepan; Rathi, Anuj; Cristina Oancea

Silicon Carbide Timepix3 detector for quantum-imaging detection and spectral tracking of charged particles in wide range of energy and field-of-view Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 18
Article Number: C11004
DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/18/11/C11004/meta

C Granja, R Uhlar, I Chuprakov, Petr Alexa, E Sansarbayar, YM Gledenov, Dušan Poklop, V Olsansky, L Marek, M Vuolo, J Pacik

Detection of fast neutrons with the pixel detector Timepix3 Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 18
Article Number: P01003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/01/P01003

2022

C. Granja, J. Jakubek, P. Soukup, et al.

Spectral and directional sensitive composition characterization of mixed-radiation fields with the miniaturized radiation camera MiniPIX Timepix2 (J. of Instrumentation, 2022)

Volume: 17
Article Number: C11014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/11/C11014

C. Granja, J. Jakubek, P. Soukup, et al.

Spectral tracking of energetic charged particles in wide field-of-view with miniaturized telescope MiniPIX Timepix3 1×2 Stack (J. of Instrum., 2022)

Volume: 17
Article Number: C03028
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/03/C03028

C. Granja, J. Jakubek, P. Soukup, et al.

MiniPIX Timepix3 — a miniaturized radiation camera with onboard data processing for online characterization of wide-intensity mixed-radiation fields (J. of Instrum., 2022)

Volume: 17
Article Number: C03019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/03/C03019

M. Sommer, C. Granja, S. Kodaira, O. Ploc

High-energy per-pixel calibration of timepix pixel detector with laboratory alpha source (Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 2022)

Volume: 1022
Article Number: 165957
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2021.165957

C Balan, C Granja, C Oancea, G Mytsin, S Shvidky, A Molokanov, V Chis

Characterization of Stray Radiation Produced by a Proton Beam in an Anthropomorphic Phantom with Dental Implants Using a Pixel Detector International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Volume: 114
Article Number: e542
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.2158

Jaroslav Šolc, Jan Jakůbek, Lukáš Marek, Cristina Oancea, Jiří Pivec, Jana Šmoldasová, Jiří Tesař, Zdeněk Vykydal

Monte Carlo modelling of pixel clusters in Timepix detectors using the MCNP code Physica Medica

Volume: 101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2022.08.002

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D. Turecek et al.

Compton camera based on Timepix3 technology (JINST, 2018)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/11/C11022

D. Turecek et al.

Single layer Compton camera based on Timepix3 technology (JINST, 2020)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/01/C01014

2022

V. Olsansky, C. Granja, C. Oancea, A. Mackova, V. Havranek, D. Chvatil, J. Bila

Spectral-sensitive proton radiography of thin samples with the pixel detector Timepix3 (Journal of Instrumentation, 2022)

Volume: 17(04)
Article Number: C04016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/04/C04016

Vaclav Olsansky, Carlos Granja, Cristina Oancea, Pavel Krist, Anna Mackova, Vladimir Havranek, Jiri Bila

High-contrast low-dose proton radiography of thin samples at the Tandetron accelerator (EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022)

Volume: 261
Article Number: 01005
DOI: Not available

B Zat’ko, A Šagátová, N Gál, A Novák, J Osvald, P Boháček, Š Polansky, J Jakůbek, E Kováčová

From a single silicon carbide detector to pixelated structure for radiation imaging camera Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 17
Article Number: C12005
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/12/C12005

Adam Modrý, Jiří Dammer, Eliška Trojanová, Jan Jakubek, Viktor Sýkora, Luděk Šefc

SPECT imaging properties of the CdTe-Timepix3 detector used in a new prototype FullSPECT 3D multimodal preclinical imaging system: Comparison with scintillation gamma camera Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volume: 1032
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.166531

2021

M. Wurl, K. Schnurle, J. Bortfeldt, C. Oancea, C. Granja, et al.

Proton Radiography for a Small-Animal Irradiation Platform based on a Miniaturized Timepix Detector (IEEE Trans. Nuclear Sciences, 2020)

Article Number: 21077049
DOI: 10.1109/NSS/MIC42677.2020.9508073, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353859285_Proton_Radiography_for_a_Small-Animal_Irradiation_Platform_Based_on_a_Miniaturized_Timepix_Detector

2023

Alvarez-Castillo, David; Homola, Piotr; Sushchov, Oleksandr; Stasielak, Jarosław; Stuglik, Sławomir; Góra, Dariusz; Nazari, Vahab; Oancea, Cristina; Granja, Carlos; Beznosko, Dmitriy

Recent Developments within The Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) Revista Mexicana de Fisica

Volume:
Article Number:
DOI: https://rmf.smf.mx/ojs/index.php/rmf-s/article/view/7160

2022

C. Granja, J. Jakubek, P. Soukup, et al.

MiniPIX Timepix3 — a miniaturized radiation camera with onboard data processing for online characterization of wide-intensity mixed-radiation fields (J. of Instrum., 2022)

Volume: 17
Article Number: C03019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/03/C03019

C. Granja, R. Hudec, V. Marsikova, et al.

Directional-Sensitive X-ray/Gamma-ray Imager on Board the VZLUSAT-2 CubeSat for Wide Field-of-View Observation of GRBs in Low Earth Orbit (Universe, 2022)

Volume: 8
Article Number: 241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8040241

S. Gohl, M. Malich, C. Granja, et al.

A miniaturized radiation monitor for continuous dosimetry and particle identification in space (Journal of Instrumentation, 2022)

Volume: 17
Article Number: C01066
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/C01066, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2800454

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Piotr Homola, C. Oancea et al.

Cosmic-ray extremely distributed observatory (Symmetry, 2020)

Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Pages: 1835
DOI: Not available

2024

Cristina Oancea, Katerina Sykorova, Jan Jakubek, Jiri Pivec, Felix Riemer, Steven Worm, Alexandra Bourgouin

Temporal and dosimetric beam monitoring of individual pulses in FLASH Radiotherapy using Timepix3 pixelated detector placed out-of-field

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.13732

C. Oancea, A. Resch, S. Barna, G. Magrin, L. Grevillot, D. Hladik, L. Marek, J. Jakubek and C. Granja

High-count-rate particle tracking in proton and carbon radiotherapy with Timepix2 operated in ultra-short acquisition time Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 19 (11)
Article Number: C11002
DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/19/11/C11002

C. Oancea, J. Šolc, C. Granja, E. Bodenstein, F. Horst, J. Pawelke, J. Jakubek

Radiation Measurements Using Timepix3 with Silicon Sensor and Bare Chip in Proton Beams for FLASH Radiotherapy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.00549

C. Balan, C. Granja, G. Mytsin, S. Shvidky, A. Molokanov, V. Chis, C. Oancea

Assessing the Dosimetric Effects of High-Z Titanium Implants in Proton Therapy Using Pixel Detectors

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.18521

Jiajian Shen, Xuanfeng Ding, Serdar Charyyev, Xiaoying Liang, Cristina Oancea, Peilong Wang, William G. Rule, Wei Liu, Martin Bues, Liyong Lin

Time structures of proton pencil beam scanning delivery on a microsecond scale measured with a pixelated semiconductor detector Timepix3 Journey of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volume: 25
Article Number: e14486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.14486

Nathan Harrison, Serdar Charyyev, Cristina Oancea, Alexander Stanforth, Edgar Gelover, Shuang Zhou, William S Dynan, Tiezhi Zhang, Steven Biegalski, Liyong Lin

Characterizing devices for validation of dose, dose rate, and LET in ultra high dose rate proton irradiations Medical Physics

Volume: 51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.17359

Laurent Kelleter, Lukas Marek, Gernot Echner, Pamela Ochoa-Parra, Marcus Winter, Semi Harrabi, Jan Jakubek, Oliver Jäkel, Jürgen Debus & Maria Martisikova

An in-vivo treatment monitoring system for ion-beam radiotherapy based on 28 Timepix3 detectors Scientific Reports

Volume: 14
Article Number: 15452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66266-9

Paulina Stasica, Antoni Rucinski, Damian Borys, Carlos Granja, Angelica De Gregorio, Renata Kopeć, Dawid Krzempek, Lukas Marek, Hanh Nguyen, Cristina Oancea, Marzena Rydygier, Angelo Schiavi, Keith Schubert, Jan Gajewski

LET SPECTRA COMPUTATION AND MEASUREMENT FOR PROTON THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING International Journal of Particle Therapy

Volume: 12
Article Number: 100340

Jeppe Brage Christensen, Iván Domingo Muñoz, Pawel Bilski, Valeria Conte, Pawel Olko, Lily Bossin, Anne Vestergaard, Stefano Agosteo, Anatoly Rosenfeld, Linh Tran, Željka Knežević, Marija Majer, Iva Ambrožová, Alessio Parisi, Tim Gehrke, Mária Martišíková, Niels Bassler

Status of LET assessment with active and passive detectors in ion beams Radiation Measurements

Volume: 117
Article Number: 107252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2024.107252

2023

Cristina Oancea, Jaroslav Solc, Alexandra Bourgouin, Carlos Granja, Jan Jakubek, Jiri Pivec, Felix Riemer, Zdenek Vykydal, Steven Worm and Lukas Marek

Thermal neutron detection and track recognition method in reference and out-of-field radiotherapy FLASH electron fields using Timepix3 detectors, (Phys. Med. Biol)

Date: 14 sept 2023
Volume: 68
Article Number: 185017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/acf2e1

C. Oancea, C. Granja, L. Marek, J. Jakubek, J. Šolc, E. Bodenstein, S. Gantz, J. Pawelke, J. Pivec

Out-of-field measurements and simulations of a proton pencil beam in a wide range of dose rates using a Timepix3 detector: Dose rate, flux and LET (Physica Medica, 2023)

Volume: 106
Page: 102529
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.102529

Paulina Stasica, Hanh Nguyen, Carlos Granja, Renata Kopec, Lukas Marek, Cristina Oancea, Łukasz Raczyński, et al.

Single proton LET characterization with the Timepix detector and artificial intelligence for advanced proton therapy treatment planning (Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023)

Volume: 68
Issue: 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/acc9f8

Novak, C. Granja, A. Sagatova, V. Zach, J. Stursa, C. Oancea

Spectral tracking of proton beams by the Timepix3 detector with GaAs, CdTe and Si sensors (Journal of Instrumentation, 2023)

Volume: 18
Article Number: C01022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/01/C01022

Racell Nabha, Marijke De Saint-Hubert, Joachim Marichal, Johannes Esser, Olivier Van Hoey, Christian Bäumer, Nico Verbeek, et al.

Biophysical characterization of collimated and uncollimated fields in pencil beam scanning proton therapy (Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023)

Volume: 68
Issue: 6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/acbe8d

Charyyev, Serdar; Liu, Ruirui; Yang, Xiaofeng; Zhou, Jun; Dhabaan, Anees; Dynan, William S; Oancea, Cristina; Lin, Liyong

Measurement of the time structure of FLASH beams using prompt gamma rays and secondary neutrons as surrogates Physics in Medicine & Biology

Volume: 68
Article Number: 145018
DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/acdc7c/meta

Cristina Balan, Carlos Granja, Gennady Mytsin, Sergey Shvidky, Alexander Molokanov, Lukas Marek, Vasile Chis, Cristina Oancea

Particle Tracking, Recognition and LET Evaluation of Out-of-Field Proton Therapy Delivered to a Phantom with Implants

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.14304

Carlos Granja, Marie Davidkova, Jan Vilimovsky, Vladimir Vondracek

Quantum-imaging detection of secondary neutrons in proton radiotherapy fields Journal of Instrumentation

Volume: 18
Article Number: C11011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/11/C11011

2022

R. Nabha, O. Van Hoey, C. Granja, A. Parisi, M. De Saint-Hubert, L. Struelens, C. Oancea, E. Sterpin, V. Zach, J. Stursa, A. Rucinski, J. Gajewski, P. Stasica, F. Vanhavere

A novel method to assess the incident angle and the LET of protons using a compact single-layer timepix detector (Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2022)

Volume: 199
Article Number: 110349
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110349

C. Oancea, C. Balan, C. Granja, et al.

Stray radiation produced in FLASH electron beams characterized by the MiniPIX Timepix3 Flex detector (Journal of Instrumentation, 2022)

Volume: 17
Article Number: C01003
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/01/C01003

Carlos Granja, Cristina Oancea, Anna Mackova, Vladimir Havranek, Vaclav Olsansky

Energy Sensitive Imaging of Focused and Scanning Ion Microbeams with µm Spatial and µs Time Resolution (EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022)

Volume: 261
Article Number: 01007
DOI: Not available

Jaroslav Šolc, Jan Jakůbek, Lukáš Marek, Cristina Oancea, Jiří Pivec, Jana Šmoldasová, Jiří Tesař, Zdeněk Vykydal

Monte Carlo modelling of pixel clusters in Timepix detectors using the MCNP code (Physica Medica, 2022)

Volume: 101
Pages: 79-86
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2022.08.002, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1120179722020269

2021

Charyyev, S., Chang, C.-W., Harms, J., Oancea, C., Yoon, S. T., Yang, X., Zhang, T., Zhou, J., & Lin, L.

A novel proton counting detector and method for the validation of tissue and implant material maps for Monte Carlo dose calculation (Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021)

Volume: 66
Issue: 4
Pages: 045003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/abdfda

Carlos Granja, Cristina Oancea, Jan Jakubek, Lukas Marek, Eric Benton, Satoshi Kodaira, Jack Miller, Antoni Rucinski, Jan Gajewski, Paulina Stasica, Vaclav Zach, Jan Stursa, David Chvatil, Pavel Krist

Wide-range tracking and LET-spectra of energetic light and heavy charged particles (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2021)

Volume: 988
Article Number: 164901
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2020.164901, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168900220312985

Yap, J., Bal, N., Brooke, M., Granja, C., Oancea, C., Kacperek, A

Tracking and LET Measurements with the MiniPIX-TimePIX Detector for 60 MeV Clinical Protons (Proceedings of IPAC2021)

R. Felix-Bautista, L. Ghesquiere-Dierickx, L. Marek , C. Granja, et al.

Quality assurance method for monitoring of lateral pencil beam positions in scanned carbon-ion radiotherapy using tracking of secondary ions (Medical Physics, 2021)

Pages: 4411-4424
DOI: 10.1002/mp.15018, https://www.sciencegate.app/document/10.1002/mp.15018

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Stasica, P., Baran, J., Granja, C., Krah, N., Korcyl, G., Oancea, C., Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, M., Niedźwiecki, S., Rydygier, M., Schiavi, A., Rucinski, A., & Gajewski, J.

A Simple Approach for Experimental Characterization and Validation of Proton Pencil Beam Profiles (Frontiers in Physics, 2020)

Volume: 0
Article Number: 346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/FPHY.2020.00346

Rosenfeld, S. Alnaghy, M. Petasecca, C. Granja, et al.

Medipix detectors in radiation therapy for advanced quality-assurance (Radiation Measurements, 2020)

Volume: 130
Page Range: 106211
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2019.106211, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448719304974

2024

Carlos Granja , Corinne Barber, Sandra Barna, Jeffery Chancellor,
David Chvatil, Loic Grevillot, David Inzalaco, Jan Jakubek, Zdenek Kohout,
Giulio Magrin, Lukas Marek, Radu Mihai, Cristina Oancea, Vaclav Olsansky,
Trevor Olsen, Dusan Poklop, Stanislav Pospisil, Andreas Resch,
Andrea Sagatova, Michael Sivertz, Jan Stursa, Rudolf Sykora, Ivan Wilhelm,
Vaclav Zach and Bohumir Zatko

Detection resolving power of SiC Timepix3 detector to electrons, neutrons, ions and protons Journal of Instrumentation (2024)

Volume: 19
Article Number: C11007
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/11/C11007

2023

C. Granja, R. Uhlar, I. Chuprakov, et al.

Detection of fast neutrons with the pixel detector Timepix3 (J. of Instrumentation, 2023)

Volume: 18
Article Number: P01003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/01/P01003

2022

D. Parcerisas, R. Ballabriga, …, C. Granja, et al.

ADMIRA project: teaching particle physics at high school with Timepix detectors (Phys. Educ., 2022)

Volume: 57
Issue: 2
Pages: 025018
DOI: Not available

J. Rusňák,

RaDron – Miniaturní dron schopný lokalizovat zdroje ionizujícího záření (Časopis Metrologie, 2022)

Pages: 26-29
DOI: N/A

2021

T. Baca, P. Stibinger, D. Doubravova, D. Turecek, J. Solc, J. Rusnak, M. Saska, J. Jakubek

Gamma Radiation Source Localization for Micro Aerial Vehicles with a Miniature Single-Detector Compton Event Camera (2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems)

DOI: N/A

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T. Baca, M. Jilek, P. Manek, P. Stibinger, V. Linhart, J. Jakubek, M. Saska

Timepix Radiation Detector for Autonomous Radiation Localization and Mapping by Micro Unmanned Vehicles (2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)

DOI: N/A