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 …

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 …

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 …

Characterization of the Cherenkov scatter function for use in superficial dose measurement from external beam radiation treatments

E Brost, Y Watanabe - … Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXIX, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Cherenkov light is created in clinical applications involving high-energy radiation such as in
radiation therapy. Due to improvements in camera sensitivity, we are now able to detect and …

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 …

Application of Cerenkov radiation generated in plastic optical fibers for therapeutic photon beam dosimetry

KW Jang, T Yagi, CH Pyeon, WJ Yoo… - … of biomedical optics, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A Cerenkov fiber-optic dosimeter (CFOD) is fabricated using plastic optical fibers to measure
Cerenkov radiation induced by a therapeutic photon beam. We measured the Cerenkov …

Implementation of convolution/superposition model of photon dose calculation

J Li, T Zhang - 7th Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and …, 2008 - Springer
The implementation, accuracy and performance of a collapsed cone convolution/
superposition dose calculation algorithms is presented. The primary fluence or TERMA (total …

External beam irradiation angle measurement using a hybrid Cerenkov-scintillation detector

E Jean, S Lambert-Girard… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In this study, we propose a novel approach designed to take advantage of the
Cerenkov light angular dependency to perform a direct measurement of an external beam …

A new approach to CT pixel‐based photon dose calculations in heterogeneous media

JW Wong, RM Henkelman - Medical physics, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of small cavities on dose in water and the dose in a homogeneous nonunit
density medium illustrate that inhomogeneities do not act independently in photon dose …