Aim: Calculating the absorbed dose is important for the determination of risk and therapeutic benefit of internal radiation therapy. Optimal dose estimations require time-consuming and sophisticated methods, which are difficult due to practical reasons. To make dosimetry available for each of the patients, we developed a specific dosimetry procedure used in daily clinical routine. Materials and...

This monograph comprises a set of notes which was developed to accompany a seminar series on the Concepts of Radiation Dosimetry given by the authors at Stanford University during the Spring Quarter 1970. It discusses the basic information required to understand the principles of photon and charged particle dose measurement from basic particle interactions to cavity chamber theory. As health ph...

Due to their small collecting volume, diodes are commonly used in small field dosimetry. However, the relative sensitivity of a diode increases with decreasing small field size. Conversely, small air gaps have been shown to cause a significant decrease in the sensitivity of a detector as the field size is decreased. Therefore, this study uses Monte Carlo simulations to look at introducing air u...

Abstract Introduction: This is the second of two papers giving an overview use Monte-Carlo techniques for radiotherapy applications. Methods: The first paper gave introduction and introduced some codes that are available to user wishing model different aspects treatment. It also aims serve as a useful companion curated collection on have been published in this journal. Results Conclusions: focu...

Medical dosimetry education occupies a specialized branch of allied health higher education. Noted international shortages of health care workers, reduced university funding, limitations on faculty staffing, trends in learner attrition, and increased enrollment of nontraditional students force medical dosimetry educational leadership to reevaluate current admission practices. Program officials ...

Fiberoptic dosimetry (FOD) technique has become an attractive method for real-time dosimetry. Al(2)O(3):Cis one of the most used radioluminescence materials for FOD due to its high efficiency but it presents the drawback of emitting in the spectral region, where spurious luminescence is also important. Optical filtering is the simplest technique to remove spurious luminescence, but is useful wh...

The Quantitative Assessment of Solar UV [ultraviolet] Exposure for Vitamin D Synthesis in Australian Adults (AusD) Study aimed to better define the relationship between sun exposure and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentration. Cross-sectional data were collected between May 2009 and December 2010 from 1,002 participants aged 18-75 years in 4 Australian sites spanning 24° of latitude. ...

We congratulate the authors for reporting their results. Ege et al. have shared their results that they got from the fluoroscopy device retrospectively. We think that this study method could not prove the exact amount of radiation exposure that impacts the surgical team correctly. The authors compare their study with similar studies (2, 3) that measure radiation exposure by dosimetry as more ob...