Hydrogels for three-dimensional ionizing-radiation dosimetry

M Marrale, F d'Errico - Gels, 2021 - mdpi.com
Radiation-sensitive gels are among the most recent and promising developments for
radiation therapy (RT) dosimetry. RT dosimetry has the twofold goal of ensuring the quality …

Validation of complex radiotherapy techniques using polymer gel dosimetry

CP Karger, A Elter, S Dorsch, P Mann… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Modern radiotherapy delivers highly conformal dose distributions to irregularly shaped
target volumes while sparing the surrounding normal tissue. Due to the complex planning …

End-to-end test of an online adaptive treatment procedure in MR-guided radiotherapy using a phantom with anthropomorphic structures

A Elter, S Dorsch, P Mann, A Runz… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Online adaptive treatment procedures in magnetic resonance (MR)-guided radiotherapy
(MRgRT) allow compensating for inter-fractional anatomical variations in the patient. Clinical …

End-to-end test for fractionated online adaptive MR-guided radiotherapy using a deformable anthropomorphic pelvis phantom

A Elter, C Rippke, W Johnen, P Mann… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. In MR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) for prostate cancer treatments inter-
fractional anatomy changes such as bladder and rectum fillings may be corrected by an …

[PDF][PDF] Gel dosimetry provides the optimal end-to-end quality assurance dosimetry for MR-linacs

C Baldock, CP Karger, H Zaidi - Med Phys, 2020 - access.archive-ouverte.unige.ch
Major advances in external beam radiation therapy in the last decade have provided
technologies for planning and delivering highly conformal radiation dose distributions made …

[HTML][HTML] Pilot scale validation campaign of gel dosimetry for pre-treatment quality assurance in stereotactic radiotherapy

G Magugliani, M Marranconi, GM Liosi, F Locatelli… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose Complex stereotactic radiotherapy treatment plans require prior verification. A gel
dosimetry system was developed and tested to serve as a high-resolution 3D dosimeter for …

Linac-integrated kV-cone beam CT polymer gel dosimetry

A Jirasek, J Marshall, N Mantella, N Diaco… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray CT polymer gel dosimetry (PGD) remains a promising tool for three dimensional
verification of high-dose treatment deliveries such as non-coplanar stereotactic irradiations …

On the feasibility of absolute 3D dosimetry using LiF thermoluminescence detectors and polymer gels on a 0.35 T MR-LINAC

A Schwahofer, P Mann, CK Spindeldreier… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Background and Purpose. As shown in our previous study, highly accurate absolute
dosimetry in 3D is feasible by combining polymer gels (PG) with thermoluminescence …

Feasibility of markerless fluoroscopic real-time tumor detection for adaptive radiotherapy: development and end-to-end testing

P Mann, M Witte, P Mercea, S Nill… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Respiratory-gated radiotherapy treatments of lung tumors reduce the irradiated normal
tissue volume and potentially lower the risk of side effects. However, in clinical routine, the …

PAGAT gel dosimetry for everyone: Gel production, measurement and evaluation

A Elter, S Dorsch, S Thomas… - Biomedical physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Polymer gel (PG) dosimetry is a valuable tool to measure complex dose distributions in 3D
with a high spatial resolution. However, due to complex protocols that need to be followed …