Determination of the relationship between dose deposition and Cerenkov photons in homogeneous and heterogeneous phantoms during radiotherapy using Monte …

D Shu, X Tang, C Geng, C Gong, D Chen - Journal of Radioanalytical and …, 2016 - Springer
To explore the response relationship between Cerenkov photons and dose deposition,
which is the theoretical premise of dose measurement based on Cerenkov effect, Geant4 …

Measurement of dose in radionuclide therapy by using Cerenkov radiation

Y Ai, X Tang, D Shu, W Shao, C Gong, C Geng… - Australasian Physical & …, 2017 - Springer
This work aims to determine the relationship between Cerenkov photon emission and
radiation dose from internal radionuclide irradiation. Water and thyroid phantoms were used …

Analysis of the relationship between neutron dose and Cerenkov photons under neutron irradiation through Monte Carlo method

D Shu, X Tang, F Guan, C Geng, H Yu, C Gong… - Radiation …, 2016 - Elsevier
To theoretically explore the feasibility of neutron dose characterized by Cerenkov photons,
the relationship between Cerenkov photons and neutron dose in a water phantom was …

A mathematical deconvolution formulation for superficial dose distribution measurement by Cerenkov light dosimetry

EE Brost, Y Watanabe - Medical Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Cerenkov photons are created by high‐energy radiation beams used for radiation
therapy. In this study, we developed a Cerenkov light dosimetry technique to obtain a two …

Characterization of the Cerenkov scatter function: a convolution kernel for Cerenkov light dosimetry

E Brost, Y Watanabe - Journal of biomedical optics, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Cerenkov light is created in clinical applications involving high-energy radiation such as in
radiation therapy. There is considerable interest in using Cerenkov light as a means to …

Imaging Cerenkov emission as a quality assurance tool in electron radiotherapy

Y Helo, I Rosenberg, D D'Souza… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
A new potential quality assurance (QA) method is explored (including assessment of depth
dose, dose linearity, dose rate linearity and beam profile) for clinical electron beams based …

Space‐variant deconvolution of Cerenkov light images acquired from a curved surface

E Brost, Y Watanabe - Medical Physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Cerenkov photons are generated by high‐energy radiation used in external beam
radiation therapy (EBRT). This study expands upon the Cerenkov light dosimetry formula …

Computed Cerenkov luminescence yields for radionuclides used in biology and medicine

RK Gill, GS Mitchell, SR Cherry - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Cerenkov luminescence imaging is an emerging biomedical imaging modality that takes
advantage of the optical Cerenkov photons emitted following the decay of radionuclides in …

Optical dosimetry of radiotherapy beams using Cherenkov radiation: the relationship between light emission and dose

AK Glaser, R Zhang, DJ Gladstone… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies have proposed that light emitted by the Cherenkov effect may be used for a
number of radiation therapy dosimetry applications. There is a correlation between the …

Quantitative modeling of Cerenkov light production efficiency from medical radionuclides

BJ Beattie, DLJ Thorek, CR Schmidtlein, KS Pentlow… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
There has been recent and growing interest in applying Cerenkov radiation (CR) for
biological applications. Knowledge of the production efficiency and other characteristics of …