Automatic data analysis of film dosemetry on narrow photon beams

The Effect of Detector Size on Beam Data Measurements for Narrow Photon Beams

Fast IMRT with narrow high energy scanned photon beams.

PURPOSE Since the first publications on intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in the early 1980s almost all efforts have been focused on fairly time consuming dynamic or segmental multileaf collimation. With narrow fast scanned photon beams, the flexibility and accuracy in beam shaping increases, not least in combination with fast penumbra trimming multileaf collimators. Previously, expe...

Dosimetric comparison between XR-RV3 and EBT2 radiochromic film in megavoltage photon beams

Background:  Radiochromic film is used for radiation dose measurement, XR-RV3 is used in fluoroscopy and EBT2 film in radiation therapy. The aim was to determine if the dosimetric properties of these two films are comparable in megavolt photon beams. Materials and Methods: Comparison measurements included: calibration curves, heterogeneous phantom dose profiles, and nasopharynx dose distributio...

Influence of phantom material and phantom size on radiographic film response in therapy photon beams.

The energy dependence of radiographic film can introduce dosimetric errors when evaluating photon beams. The variation of the film response, which is attributed to the changing photon spectrum with depth and field size, has been the subject of numerous publications in recent years. However, these data show large unexplained differences in the magnitude of this variation among independent studie...

Development of improved radiation therapy techniques using narrow scanned photon beams

The present thesis is focused on the development and application of narrow scanned high energy photon beams for radiation therapy. The introduction of physically and biologically optimized intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) requires a flexible and accurate dose delivery method to maximize the treatment outcome. Narrow scanned photon beams is a fast option for IMRT since it is not depe...