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Jacinta Yap

Research Fellow Accelerator Physics (Medical App)
Physics
Medical Accelerators
Medical Physics
Accelerator Physics
Monte Carlo Simulation
Physics
Beam Transport
Beam Diagnostics
Detectors
protontherapy
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Primary Interest
Particle Therapy
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Jacinta is a Research Fellow in the Medical Accelerator Physics group. Her research interests combine accelerator and medical physics concepts to better understand and improve the delivery and outcomes of cancer treatment using radiation.

This includes developing computational tools and experimental approaches to study particle beams for medical applications. Jacinta holds a BSc (EngSci - MechEng) from The University of Western Australia and an MSc (MedRadPhys with Dist.) from the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP), University of Wollongong. Her thesis was a study of the Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) in proton beam therapy by application of a novel silicon microdosimeter. Jacinta was awarded a prestigious EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship to join the Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) ITN project where she was based at the Cockcroft Institute, UK with the QUASAR group, University of Liverpool. Her PhD project involved studies into beam optics, characterisation and simulation modelling to support the development of novel beam diagnostics for particle therapy.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 6 most recent scholarly works by Jacinta Yap.

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Beam characterisation studies of the 62 MeV proton therapy beamline at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Jacinta Yap, Javier Resta-Lopez, Andrzej Kacperek, Roland Schnuerer, Simon Jolly, Stewart Boogert, Carsten Welsch

Journal article  |  2020  |  Physica Medica

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) in the United Kingdom is the world's first hospital proton beam therapy facility, providing ..

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BEAM CHARACTERISATION USING MEDIPIX3 AND EBT3 FILM AT THE CLATTERBRIDGE PROTON THERAPY BEAMLINE

JSL Yap, J Resta-Lopez, R Schnuerer, CP Welsch, NJS Bal, M Fransen, F Linde, JL Parsons, A Kacperek

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of IPAC2019

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NON-INVASIVE BEAM MONITORING USING LHCb VELO WITH 40 MeV PROTONS

R Schnuerer, JSL Yap, H Zhang, CP Welsch, T Price

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of IPAC2019

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Implemenation of a non-invasive online beam monitor at a 60 MeV proton therapy beamline

R Schnuerer, JSL Yap, H Zhang, CP Welsch, GJ Haefeli, O Girard

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of IPAC2018

To fully ex­ploit the ad­van­ta­geous dose dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­files of ion ra­dio­ther­apy, an exact knowl­edge of the beam prop..

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NON-INVASIVE ONLINE BEAM MONITOR USING LHCb VELO

R Schnuerer, H Zhang, JSL Yap, CP Welsch

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings of IPAC2017

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Development of the LHCb VELO Detector Modules into a Standalone, Non-Invasive Online Beam Monitor for Medical Accelerators

Roland Schnuerer, Jacinta Yap, Hao Zhang, Tomasz Cybulski, Tony Smith, Guido Haefeli, Olivier Girard, Tomasz Szumlak, Carsten Welsch

Journal article  |  Instruments

Knowledge of the beam properties in proton therapy through beam monitoring is essential, ensuring an effective dose delivery to th..

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Credentials

Positions

Positions

Research Fellow Accelerator Physics (Medical App)

Physics

Education

Education

Master of Science (Medical Radiation Physics) with Dist.

University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Science (Engineering Science)

The University of Western Australia

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