Small fields: nonequilibrium radiation dosimetry

IJ Das, GX Ding, A Ahnesjö - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in radiation treatment with beamlet‐based intensity modulation, image‐guided
radiation therapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery (including specialized equipments like …

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 …

Detector to detector corrections: a comprehensive experimental study of detector specific correction factors for beam output measurements for small radiotherapy …

G Azangwe, P Grochowska, D Georg… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The aim of the present study is to provide a comprehensive set of detector specific
correction factors for beam output measurements for small beams, for a wide range of real …

Measurement of output factors for small photon beams

OA Sauer, J Wilbert - Medical physics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of detectors and procedures for the measurement of small field output factors are
discussed in the current literature. Different detectors with or without corrections are …

Experimental small field 6 MV output ratio analysis for various diode detector and accelerator combinations

G Cranmer-Sargison, S Weston, NP Sidhu… - Radiotherapy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The goal of this work was to measure 6MV small field,
detector specific, output ratios (ORdet) using the IBA stereotactic field diode (SFD) and the …

Synthesis and characterization of silver/alanine nanocomposites for radiation detection in medical applications: the influence of particle size on the detection …

EJ Guidelli, AP Ramos, MED Zaniquelli, P Nicolucci… - Nanoscale, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Silver/alanine nanocomposites with varying mass percentage of silver have been produced.
The size of the silver nanoparticles seems to drive the formation of the nanocomposite …

Adapting a practical EPR dosimetry protocol to measure output factors in small fields with alanine

S Höfel, P Liebig, MK Fix, M Drescher… - Journal of applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Modern radiotherapy techniques often deliver small radiation fields. In this work, a
practical Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) dosimetry protocol is adapted and …

Characterizing a pulse-resolved dosimetry system for complex radiotherapy beams using organic scintillators

AR Beierholm, RO Ottosson, LR Lindvold… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A fast-readout dosimetry system based on fibre-coupled organic scintillators has been
developed for the purpose of conducting point measurements of absorbed dose in …

Gamma knife output factor measurements using VIP polymer gel dosimetry

A Moutsatsos, L Petrokokkinos, P Karaiskos… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Water equivalent polymer gel dosimeters and magnetic resonance imaging were
employed to measure the output factors of the two smallest treatment fields available in a …

EPR dosimetry in clinical applications

E Malinen - Applications of EPR in radiation research, 2014 - Springer
This chapter presents a literature review on the use of EPR dosimetry in clinical applications.
Due to the rather low sensitivity of the method, applications are predominantly within …