Fluence correction factors and stopping power ratios for clinical ion beams

Fluence correction factors and stopping power ratios for clinical ion beams.

BACKGROUND In radiation therapy, the principal dosimetric quantity of interest is the absorbed dose to water. Therefore, a dose conversion to dose to water is required for dose deposited by ion beams in other media. This is in particular necessary for dose measurements in plastic phantoms for increased positioning accuracy, graphite calorimetry being developed as a primary standard for dose to ...

Lattice preamorphization by ion irradiation: Fluence dependence of the electronic stopping power threshold for amorphization

Monte Carlo Calculation of Stopping-power Ratios for Clinical Electron Beams Produced by a Linac for Iort

Stopping power ratios sw,air for electron beams produced by the NOVAC7® IORT accelerator were calculated at different depths in water by the SPRRZnrc Monte Carlo code. As input for the SPRRZnrc code a phase-space data file obtained for any beam by the BEAMnrc code was used. The calculated stopping power ratios were compared with those recommended by the IAEA dosimetry protocols TRS-381 and TRS-...

Spencer-Attix water/medium stopping-power ratios for the dosimetry of proton pencil beams.

This paper uses Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the Spencer-Attix water/medium stopping-power ratios (sw, med) for the dosimetry of scanned proton pencil beams. It includes proton energies from 30 to 350 MeV and typical detection materials such as air (ionization chambers), radiochromic film, gadolinium oxysulfide (scintillating screens), silicon and lithium fluoride. Track-ends and partic...

Fluence correction factor for graphite calorimetry in a clinical high-energy carbon-ion beam.

The aim of this work is to develop and adapt a formalism to determine absorbed dose to water from graphite calorimetry measurements in carbon-ion beams. Fluence correction factors, [Formula: see text], needed when using a graphite calorimeter to derive dose to water, were determined in a clinical high-energy carbon-ion beam. Measurements were performed in a 290 MeV/n carbon-ion beam with a fiel...