In vivo dosimetry in brachytherapy

K Tanderup, S Beddar, CE Andersen… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In vivo dosimetry (IVD) has been used in brachytherapy (BT) for decades with a number of
different detectors and measurement technologies. However, IVD in BT has been subject to …

Clinical applications of alanine/electron spin resonance dosimetry

O Baffa, A Kinoshita - Radiation and environmental biophysics, 2014 - Springer
This paper discusses the clinical applications of electron spin resonance (ESR) dosimetry
focusing on the ESR/alanine system. A review of few past studies in this area is presented …

Physics-aspects of dose accuracy in high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy: source dosimetry, treatment planning, equipment performance and in vivo verification …

A Palmer, D Bradley, A Nisbet - Journal of contemporary brachytherapy, 2012 - termedia.pl
Purpose The need for dosimetric accuracy in external beam radiotherapy is well established
[1, 2]. A standard requirement of the combined uncertainties in absorbed dose delivery is …

Relative response of the alanine dosimeter to medium energy x-rays

M Anton, L Büermann - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
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EPR/alanine dosimetry for two therapeutic proton beams

M Marrale, A Carlino, S Gallo, A Longo… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this work the analysis of the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) response of alanine
pellets exposed to two different clinical proton beams employed for radiotherapy is …

Evaluation of a lithium formate EPR dosimetry system for dose measurements around brachytherapy sources

L Antonovic, H Gustafsson, G Alm Carlsson… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A dosimetry system using lithium formate monohydrate as detector material and electron
paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy for readout has been used to measure …

The contribution from transit dose for 192Ir HDR brachytherapy treatments

GP Fonseca, G Landry, B Reniers… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Brachytherapy treatment planning systems that use model-based dose calculation
algorithms employ a more accurate approach that replaces the TG43-U1 water dose …

Response of lithium formate EPR dosimeters at photon energies relevant to the dosimetry of brachytherapy

E Adolfsson, G Alm Carlsson, JE Grindborg… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To investigate experimentally the energy dependence of the detector response of
lithium formate EPR dosimeters for photon energies below 1 MeV relative to that at energies …

Suitability of microDiamond detectors for the determination of absorbed dose to water around high‐dose‐rate 192Ir brachytherapy sources

V Kaveckyte, A Malusek, H Benmakhlouf… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Experimental dosimetry of high‐dose‐rate (HDR) 192Ir brachytherapy (BT) sources
is complicated due to high dose and dose‐rate gradients, and softening of photon energy …

Determination of transit dose profile for a 192Ir HDR source

GP Fonseca, RA Rubo, RA Minamisawa… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Several studies have reported methodologies to calculate and correct the transit
dose component of the moving radiation source for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy …