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TY - CONF AU - Maggi, P.E. AU - Carver, R.L. AU - Hogstrom, H.R. AU - Matthews II, K.L. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Power, Maria ED - Shiltsev, Vladimir ED - White, Marion TI - Real-Time Magnetic Electron Energy Spectrometer for Use With Medical Linear Acceletors J2 - Proc. of NAPAC2016, Chicago, IL, USA, October 9-14, 2016 C1 - Chicago, IL, USA T2 - North American Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 3 LA - english AB - Accelerator characterization and quality assurance is an integral part of electron linear accelerator (linac) use in a medical setting. The current clinical method for radia-tion metrology of electron beams (dose on central axis versus depth in water) only provides a surrogate for the underlying performance of the accelerator and does not provide direct information about the electron energy spectrum. We have developed an easy to use real-time magnetic electron energy spectrometer for characterizing the electron beams of medical linacs. Our spectrometer uses a 0.57 T permanent magnet block as the dispersive element and scintillating fibers coupled to a CCD camera as the position sensitive detector. The goal is to have a device capable of 0.12 MeV energy resolution (which corresponds to a range shift of 0.5 mm) with a minimum readout rate of 1 Hz, over an energy range of 5 to 25 MeV. This work describes the real-time spectrometer system, the detector response model, and the spectrum unfolding method. Measured energy spectra from multi-ple electron beams from an Elekta Infinity Linac are presented. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 361 EP - 363 DA - 2017/01 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-180-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOA38 UR - https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tupoa38.pdf ER -