Optical Scanner for 3D Radiotherapy Polymer Gel Dosimetry

design and construction of an optical computed tomography scanner for polymer gel dosimetry application

polymer gel dosimeter is the only accurate three dimensional (3d) dosimeter that can measure the absorbed dose distribution in a perfect 3d setting. gel dosimetry by using optical computed tomography (oct) has been promoted by several researches. in the current study, we designed and constructed a prototype oct system for gel dosimetry. first, the electrical system for optical scanning of the g...

Designing and developing an in-house CCD based optical CT scanner for gel dosimetry

Introduction: Measurement of the complex 3D radiation dose distribution created with advanced radiotherapy techniques such as IMRT and SRS became very important. Polymer gel dosimetry (PGD) is proposed method to recording this dose distribution. MRI, X-ray CT, ultrasound, spectrophotometry and optical CT scanners can be used for readout of Polymer gel dosimeters. Although MRI i...

3D verification of a prostate IMRT treatment by polymer gel-dosimetry and optical-CT scanning

Verification of MRI MAGAT polymer gel dosimetry in clinical radiotherapy applications

Introduction: The objective of this work is to study the ability of MRI normoxic polymer gel dosimetry system to be used to verify the calculated dose distribution, in a simple geometry, in clinical radiotherapy. Materials and Methods:  Initially, 2 liters of the normoxic MAGAT polymer gel was prepared and then poured into two cylindrical Perspex phantom (simu...

Uncertainty in 3D gel dosimetry

Three-dimensional (3D) gel dosimetry has a unique role to play in safeguarding conformal radiotherapy treatments as the technique can cover the full treatment chain and provides the radiation oncologist with the integrated dose distribution in 3D. It can also be applied to benchmark new treatment strategies such as image guided and tracking radiotherapy techniques. A major obstacle that has hin...