聚并苯导电高分子材料的ESR研究

本文对由热固性酚醛树脂通过高温裂解制备的聚并苯导电高分子本征材料的ESR进行了研究。结果表明在各种裂解温度下制备的样品由于其结构不同,表现在ESR线宽、自旋浓度、线型的峰高比等差异很大,并给予了解释。

载体钒氧化物中钒-吸附物分子相互作用的ESR研究

电子自旋共振技术已经用来研究还原态V_2O_5/SiO_2催化剂和各种吸附分子的相互作用。实验指出:具有四面体配位结构的V~(4+)离子是活性中心,V~(4+)和CH_2OH,HCl,CH_3CN分子的相互作用导致形成八面体配位结构的表面VO~(2+)络合物,它们的ESR和成键参数计算指出不成对电子主要定位在钒离子的d轨道上。77 K下吸附O_2分子已经观察到氧自由基的ESR信号,但吸附乙烯和丙烯不能改变V~(4+)离子的配位结构。

辉光放电中处理聚四氟乙烯表面——Ⅱ.ESR研究PTFE膜自由基

在外部电极电容耦合式反应装置中,对聚四氟乙烯(PTFE)膜进行了辉光放电处理。通过电子自旋共振(ESR)谱研究了PTFE在处理过程中所产生的自由基,着重讨论了温度对ESR谱的影响。最后,以DPPH为内标,测定了处理后PTFE膜的自由基浓度,并考察了自由基在空气中的衰减情况。

非晶态TiO_2-SiO_2网络缺陷和Ti配位结构的ESR研究

在SiO_2中掺杂其它原子会导致熔石英SiO_4四面体网络部分破坏,形成缺陷。主要缺陷有非桥氧,E′心和过氧基。非桥氧为仅与一个Si原子(或Ti原子)成单键的O原子。E′心为与三氧配位的Si原子。剩余一个未配对的印杂化电子形成悬键轨道。过氧基则为游离氧被非桥氧俘获,或非桥氧彼此俘获而形成的。这三种缺陷各有一个未配对电子,因而具有

非化学计量氧化物CeO_(2-x)表面氧种的ESR研究

在氧化物表面上发生的催化氧化反应中,由分子氧活化形成的表面氧种起着十分重要的作用。目前,已确证的表面氧种有O~-,O_2~-,O_3~-,这主要归功于电子自旋共振(ESR)方法。

多相氧载体CoO-MgO的ESR研究

用ESR方法研究了CoO-MgO固溶体作为多相氧载体的可逆吸氧性质。发现CoO-MgO表面的Co~(2+)可以以两种方式与分子氧可逆结合,一种形成Co~(2+)-O_2,它给出了与MgO晶格中Co~(2+)相似的各向同性的信号(g=4.2);一种形成Co~(2+)-O_2~-,它给出轴对称的信号(g_‖=2.141,A_‖=30G,g_⊥_=1.980,A_⊥=15G)。我们认为Co~(2+)-O_2是表面Co_(5c)~(2+)与O_2结合产生的,而Co~(3+)-O_2~-是由表面Co_(4c)~(2+)或Co_(3c)~(2+)与O_2结合形成的。

γ辐照掺杂SiO_2的ESR研究

分别掺有磷和硼的二氧化硅经γ辐照后产生多种顺磁性中心,ESR研究指出氧空穴O~-主要稳定在杂质离子附近.O_2~-自由基稳定在Si离子上.F心的研究认为氧缺位俘获电子存在一个动态平衡过程.

六氟丙烯等离子体聚合物的ESR研究

等离子体聚合物中存在高浓度的自由基已是众所周知的。Millard得出等离子体聚四氟乙烯的自由基浓度为10~(20)spins/g,其室温真空中的半衰期仅为16天。本文报导等离子体聚六氟丙烯的自由基反应动力学、反应的活化能及不同温度下的反应速率常数。

Monte Carlo Analysis and Physics Characterization of a Novel Nanoparticle Detector for Medical and Micro-dosimetry Applications

The outcomes for both (i) radiation therapy and (ii) preclinical small animal radio- biology studies are dependent on the delivery of a known quantity of radiation to a specific and intentional location. Adverse effects can result from these procedures if the dose to the target is too high or low, and can also result from an incorrect spatial distribution in which nearby normal healthy tissue can be undesirably damaged by poor radiation delivery techniques. Thus, in mice and humans alike, the spatial dose distributions from radiation sources should be well characterized in terms of the absolute dose quantity, and with pin-point accuracy. When dealing with the steep spatial dose gradients consequential to either (i) high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy or (ii) within the small organs and tissue inhomogeneities of mice, obtaining accurate and highly precise dose results can be very challenging, considering commercially available radiation detection tools, such as ion chambers, are often too large for in-vivo use.

In this dissertation two tools are developed and applied for both clinical and preclinical radiation measurement. The first tool is a novel radiation detector for acquiring physical measurements, fabricated from an inorganic nano-crystalline scintillator that has been fixed on an optical fiber terminus. This dosimeter allows for the measurement of point doses to sub-millimeter resolution, and has the ability to be placed in-vivo in humans and small animals. Real-time data is displayed to the user to provide instant quality assurance and dose-rate information. The second tool utilizes an open source Monte Carlo particle transport code, and was applied for small animal dosimetry studies to calculate organ doses and recommend new techniques of dose prescription in mice, as well as to characterize dose to the murine bone marrow compartment with micron-scale resolution.

Hardware design changes were implemented to reduce the overall fiber diameter to <0.9 mm for the nano-crystalline scintillator based fiber optic detector (NanoFOD) system. Lower limits of device sensitivity were found to be approximately 0.05 cGy/s. Herein, this detector was demonstrated to perform quality assurance of clinical 192Ir HDR brachytherapy procedures, providing comparable dose measurements as thermo-luminescent dosimeters and accuracy within 20% of the treatment planning software (TPS) for 27 treatments conducted, with an inter-quartile range ratio to the TPS dose value of (1.02-0.94=0.08). After removing contaminant signals (Cerenkov and diode background), calibration of the detector enabled accurate dose measurements for vaginal applicator brachytherapy procedures. For 192Ir use, energy response changed by a factor of 2.25 over the SDD values of 3 to 9 cm; however a cap made of 0.2 mm thickness silver reduced energy dependence to a factor of 1.25 over the same SDD range, but had the consequence of reducing overall sensitivity by 33%.

For preclinical measurements, dose accuracy of the NanoFOD was within 1.3% of MOSFET measured dose values in a cylindrical mouse phantom at 225 kV for x-ray irradiation at angles of 0, 90, 180, and 270˝. The NanoFOD exhibited small changes in angular sensitivity, with a coefficient of variation (COV) of 3.6% at 120 kV and 1% at 225 kV. When the NanoFOD was placed alongside a MOSFET in the liver of a sacrificed mouse and treatment was delivered at 225 kV with 0.3 mm Cu filter, the dose difference was only 1.09% with use of the 4x4 cm collimator, and -0.03% with no collimation. Additionally, the NanoFOD utilized a scintillator of 11 µm thickness to measure small x-ray fields for microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) applications, and achieved 2.7% dose accuracy of the microbeam peak in comparison to radiochromic film. Modest differences between the full-width at half maximum measured lateral dimension of the MRT system were observed between the NanoFOD (420 µm) and radiochromic film (320 µm), but these differences have been explained mostly as an artifact due to the geometry used and volumetric effects in the scintillator material. Characterization of the energy dependence for the yttrium-oxide based scintillator material was performed in the range of 40-320 kV (2 mm Al filtration), and the maximum device sensitivity was achieved at 100 kV. Tissue maximum ratio data measurements were carried out on a small animal x-ray irradiator system at 320 kV and demonstrated an average difference of 0.9% as compared to a MOSFET dosimeter in the range of 2.5 to 33 cm depth in tissue equivalent plastic blocks. Irradiation of the NanoFOD fiber and scintillator material on a 137Cs gamma irradiator to 1600 Gy did not produce any measurable change in light output, suggesting that the NanoFOD system may be re-used without the need for replacement or recalibration over its lifetime.

For small animal irradiator systems, researchers can deliver a given dose to a target organ by controlling exposure time. Currently, researchers calculate this exposure time by dividing the total dose that they wish to deliver by a single provided dose rate value. This method is independent of the target organ. Studies conducted here used Monte Carlo particle transport codes to justify a new method of dose prescription in mice, that considers organ specific doses. Monte Carlo simulations were performed in the Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) toolkit using a MOBY mouse whole-body phantom. The non-homogeneous phantom was comprised of 256x256x800 voxels of size 0.145x0.145x0.145 mm3. Differences of up to 20-30% in dose to soft-tissue target organs was demonstrated, and methods for alleviating these errors were suggested during whole body radiation of mice by utilizing organ specific and x-ray tube filter specific dose rates for all irradiations.

Monte Carlo analysis was used on 1 µm resolution CT images of a mouse femur and a mouse vertebra to calculate the dose gradients within the bone marrow (BM) compartment of mice based on different radiation beam qualities relevant to x-ray and isotope type irradiators. Results and findings indicated that soft x-ray beams (160 kV at 0.62 mm Cu HVL and 320 kV at 1 mm Cu HVL) lead to substantially higher dose to BM within close proximity to mineral bone (within about 60 µm) as compared to hard x-ray beams (320 kV at 4 mm Cu HVL) and isotope based gamma irradiators (137Cs). The average dose increases to the BM in the vertebra for these four aforementioned radiation beam qualities were found to be 31%, 17%, 8%, and 1%, respectively. Both in-vitro and in-vivo experimental studies confirmed these simulation results, demonstrating that the 320 kV, 1 mm Cu HVL beam caused statistically significant increased killing to the BM cells at 6 Gy dose levels in comparison to both the 320 kV, 4 mm Cu HVL and the 662 keV, 137Cs beams.

Optical-CT 3D Dosimetry Using Fresnel Lenses with Minimal Refractive-Index Matching Fluid.

Telecentric optical computed tomography (optical-CT) is a state-of-the-art method for visualizing and quantifying 3-dimensional dose distributions in radiochromic dosimeters. In this work a prototype telecentric system (DFOS-Duke Fresnel Optical-CT Scanner) is evaluated which incorporates two substantial design changes: the use of Fresnel lenses (reducing lens costs from $10-30K t0 $1-3K) and the use of a 'solid tank' (which reduces noise, and the volume of refractively matched fluid from 1 ltr to 10 cc). The efficacy of DFOS was evaluated by direct comparison against commissioned scanners in our lab. Measured dose distributions from all systems were compared against the predicted dose distributions from a commissioned treatment planning system (TPS). Three treatment plans were investigated including a simple four-field box treatment, a multiple small field delivery, and a complex IMRT treatment. Dosimeters were imaged within 2 h post irradiation, using consistent scanning techniques (360 projections acquired at 1 degree intervals, reconstruction at 2mm). DFOS efficacy was evaluated through inspection of dose line-profiles, and 2D and 3D dose and gamma maps. DFOS/TPS gamma pass rates with 3%/3mm dose difference/distance-to-agreement criteria ranged from 89.3% to 92.2%, compared to from 95.6% to 99.0% obtained with the commissioned system. The 3D gamma pass rate between the commissioned system and DFOS was 98.2%. The typical noise rates in DFOS reconstructions were up to 3%, compared to under 2% for the commissioned system. In conclusion, while the introduction of a solid tank proved advantageous with regards to cost and convenience, further work is required to improve the image quality and dose reconstruction accuracy of the new DFOS optical-CT system.