A systematic review of clinical applications of polymer gel dosimeters in radiotherapy

B Farhood, G Geraily, SMM Abtahi - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy has rapidly improved because of the use of new equipment and techniques.
Hence, the appeal for a feasible and accurate three-dimensional (3D) dosimetry system has …

Monte Carlo methods for device simulations in radiation therapy

H Park, H Paganetti, J Schuemann… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play an important role in radiotherapy, especially as a method
to evaluate physical properties that are either impossible or difficult to measure. For …

A contemporary review of stereotactic radiotherapy: inherent dosimetric complexities and the potential for detriment

ML Taylor, T Kron, RD Franich - Acta oncologica, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. The advantages of highly localised, conformal treatments achievable with
stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) are increasingly being extended to extracranial sites as …

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 …

A variable echo‐number method for estimating in MRI‐based polymer gel dosimetry

Y Watanabe, H Kubo - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Spin‐spin relaxation rate is commonly used to quantify absorbed dose for
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐based polymer gel dosimetry. is estimated by applying …

Monte Carlo verification of gel dosimetry measurements for stereotactic radiotherapy

T Kairn, ML Taylor, SB Crowe, L Dunn… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The quality assurance of stereotactic radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatments requires the
use of small-field dose measurements that can be experimentally challenging. This study …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of the effects of inhomogeneities on dose profiles using polymer gel dosimeter and Monte Carlo simulation in Gamma Knife

PT ALLAHVERDI, M Allahverdi, MH ZAHMATKESH - 2012 - sid.ir
Introduction Polymer gel dosimeters offer a practical solution to 3D dose verification for
conventional radiotherapy as well as intensity-modulated and stereotactic radiotherapy. In …

Dosimetric evaluation of target volume in breast boost radiotherapy: Comparison of electron and photon beam

T Pourfallah, M Shahidi, D Seifi Makrani… - … of Medical Sciences, 2019 - jmums.mazums.ac.ir
Background and purpose: Breast‑conserving surgery followed by radiation therapy to the
whole breast is now recognized as a standard strategy in patients with breast cancer …

Evaluation of dose profiles using Gafchromic EBT3 films in Leksell Gamma Knife 4C around inhomogeneities in the treatment of pituitary adenoma in anthropomorphic …

M Najafi, A Shirazi, G Geraily, M Esfahani… - Radiation Physics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose The Leksell Gamma Knife is a complete system for radiosurgery.
Treatment dose planning of Gamma Knife assumes the human head as a homogenous …

[PDF][PDF] Applications of the monte carlo method in medical physics

E Amato, D Lizio, S Baldari - Medical Physics, 2013 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT The Monte Carlo simulation of particle transport and interaction in matter finds
growing applications in medical radiation physics. Dosimetric applications in radiation …