Electronic brachytherapy—current status and future directions

DJ Eaton - The British journal of radiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In the past decade, electronic brachytherapy (EB) has emerged as an attractive modality for
the treatment of skin lesions and intraoperative partial breast irradiation, as well as finding …

Quality assurance and independent dosimetry for an intraoperative x‐ray device

DJ Eaton - Medical physics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Quality assurance is an essential component of accurate and safe radiotherapy
delivery, and should include measurements which are independent of manufacturer …

A dosimetric evaluation of water equivalent phantoms for kilovoltage x-ray beams

R Hill, L Holloway, C Baldock - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Solid phantoms are widely used in radiation therapy for both relative and reference
dosimetry. Two water equivalent phantoms, RMI-457 Solid Water and Plastic Water, were …

Dosimetric characteristics of a low‐kV intra‐operative x‐ray source: implications for use in a clinical trial for treatment of low‐risk breast cancer

MA Ebert, B Carruthers - Medical physics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The dosimetric characteristics of a low‐kV x‐ray device for performing intra‐operative
irradiations, the Intrabeam (Photoelectron Corporation, Lexington, MA), are examined. Two …

Suitability of radiochromic films for dosimetry of low energy X‐rays

MA Ebert, AH Asad, SA Siddiqui - Journal of applied clinical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the response characteristics of three commercially available
radiochromic films when exposed to low energy (50 kVp) X‐rays. The aim was to evaluate …

Australasian recommendations for quality assurance in kilovoltage radiation therapy from the Kilovoltage Dosimetry Working Group of the Australasian College of …

R Hill, B Healy, D Butler, D Odgers, S Gill, J Lye… - Australasian Physical & …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine
(ACPSEM) Radiation Oncology Specialty Group (ROSG) formed a series of working groups …

Dose‐rate considerations for the INTRABEAM electronic brachytherapy system: report from the American association of physicists in medicine task group no. 292

WS Culberson, SD Davis, G Gwe‐Ya Kim… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this report is to provide detailed guidance on the dosimetry of the
INTRABEAM®(Carl Zeiss Medical AG, Jena, Germany) electronic brachytherapy (eBT) …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue inhomogeneity corrections in low-kV intra-operative radiotherapy (IORT)

A Sethi, B Chinsky, S Gros, A Diak… - Translational Cancer …, 2015 - tcr.amegroups.org
Objective: To investigate the effects of tissue inhomogeneities on dose distributions
produced by low-energy X-rays from an IntraBeam device used in intra-operative …

[HTML][HTML] The dosimetric characteristics and potential limitation in clinical application of a low energy photon intra-operative radiotherapy system

Z Xiao, O Bin, Z Wang, B Huang, B Wen - International Journal of Medical …, 2015 - scirp.org
Purpose: To investigate the dosimetric characteristics of a low energy photon intra-operative
radiotherapy (IORT) system and explore its potential limitation in clinical application …

Toward 3D dose verification of an electronic brachytherapy source with a plastic scintillation detector

P Georgi, G Kertzscher, L Nyvang, J Šolc… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Electronic brachytherapy (eBT) is considered a safe treatment with good
outcomes. However, eBT lacks standardized and independent dose verification, which could …