Purpose: Rescanning, gating, and breath-hold are promising approaches for realising proton therapy treatments of moving targets, but decrease delivery efficiency, lengthening treatment delivery time. In PBS (Pencil Beam Scanning) proton therapy, two factors influence the treatment delivery time: the beam-on time and the dead time, which is the time required for energy-layer and spot-position adjustments. Several studies demonstrated that ...

We introduce Basilisk, an optimized application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation and design flow building on the end-to-end open-source Iguana system-on-chip (SoC). We present enhancements to synthesis tools and logic optimization scripts improving quality of results (QoR), as well as an optimized physical design with an improved power grid and cell placement integration enabling a higher core utilization. The tapeout-ready ...

Microseismic source processes can be closely monitored during hydraulic stimulations with optical fiber deployed behind borehole casing, using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). The Bedretto Underground Laboratory for the Geosciences and Geoenergies (BULGG) provides a test site at the scale of hundreds of meters (meso-scale), where multiple boreholes are instrumented with fibers around a stimulation well. This enables the characterization ...