Introduction: In clinical electron beams, most of bremsstrahlung radiation is produced by various linac head structures. This bremsstrahlung radiation dose is influenced by the geometry and construction of every component of the linac treatment head structures. Thus, it can be expected that the amount of the contaminated photon dose due to bremsstrahlung radiation varies among different linacs,...

Dose distributions for photon beam were measured using a Photo-Stimulated Luminescence Dosimeter (PSLD) sheet, which has 18 x 24 cm dimension and 0.2 mm thickness. Its density and effective atomic number are 1.0 g/cm and 7.6, respectively. The read out was performed by blue LED lights for 20 seconds, which was much shorter than the readout time for TLD. The percent depth dose and dose profile w...

The ORIGIN project targets the production and qualification of a real-time radiation dose imaging source localization system for both Low Dose Rate (LDR) High (HDR) brachytherapy treatments, namely radiotherapy based on use radioactive sources implanted in patient’s body. This goal will be achieved through 16-fiber sensor system, engineered to house clear-fiber tip small volume scintillator all...

This study investigated radiation dose variations in pre-clinical irradiation due to the photon beam energy and presence of tissue heterogeneity. Based on the same mouse computed tomography image dataset, three phantoms namely, heterogeneous, homogeneous and bone homogeneous were used. These phantoms were generated by overriding the relative electron density of no voxel (heterogeneous), all vox...

radiotherapy dose calculations can be evaluated by monte carlo (mc) simulations with acceptable accuracy for dose prediction in complicated treatment plans. in this work, standard, livermore and penelope electromagnetic (em) physics packages of geant4 application for tomographic emission (gate) 6.1 were compared versus monte carlo n-particle extended (mcnpx) 2.6 in simulation of 6 mv photon lin...

Therapeutic treatment plan evaluation is often based on examining the radiotherapy treatment planning (RTP) system dose distributions in the target and surrounding normal structures. To study the effects of tissue inhomogeneities on photon dose distributions, we compared FOCUS RTP system dose distributions from the measurement-based Clarkson and model-based MultiGrid Superposition (MGS) algorit...

PURPOSE Thermoluminescent dosimeters are used routinely for dosimetric measurements of photon and electron fields. However, no work has been published characterizing TLDs for use in combined photon and electron fields. This work investigates the response of TLD-100 (LiF:Mg,Ti) in mixed fields of photon and electron beam qualities. METHODS TLDs were irradiated in a 6 MV photon beam, 6 MeV elec...