A real time scintillating fiber dosimeter for gamma and neutron monitoring on radiotherapy accelerators

G Bartesaghi, V Conti, M Prest, V Mascagna… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2007 - Elsevier
G Bartesaghi, V Conti, M Prest, V Mascagna, S Scazzi, P Cappelletti, M Frigerio, S Gelosa…
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators …, 2007Elsevier
The quality of the radiotherapic treatment depends strongly on the capability to measure the
dose released in the treated volume and the one absorbed by the surrounding volumes,
which is mainly due to the scattered radiation produced by the primary beam interaction with
the accelerator collimating system. Radiotherapy linear accelerators produce electron (6–
20MeV) and photon (6, 18MV) irradiating fields up to 40× 40cm2. Photons with energies
greater than 8MeV generate neutrons via photoproduction which are being studied for …
The quality of the radiotherapic treatment depends strongly on the capability to measure the dose released in the treated volume and the one absorbed by the surrounding volumes, which is mainly due to the scattered radiation produced by the primary beam interaction with the accelerator collimating system. Radiotherapy linear accelerators produce electron (6–20MeV) and photon (6, 18MV) irradiating fields up to 40×40cm2. Photons with energies greater than 8MeV generate neutrons via photoproduction which are being studied for possible BNCT applications. We have developed a prototype of a real time dosimeter with 1mm diameter scintillating and clear fibers readout by multianode photomultipliers. For neutron applications, the fibers have been coupled with boron loaded scintillator. We will describe the dosimeter and the results of the tests comparing them to the ones obtained with the standard dosimeters.
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