BACKGROUND The European directive on basic safety standards (Council directive 2013/59 Euratom) mandates dosimetry-based treatment planning for radiopharmaceutical therapies. The directive comes into operation February 2018, and the aim of a report produced by the Internal Dosimetry Task Force of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine is to address this aspect of the directive. A summary ...

Accurate photodynamic therapy (PDT) dosimetry is critical for the use of PDT in the treatment of malignant and nonmalignant localized diseases. A singlet oxygen explicit dosimetry (SOED) model has been developed for in vivo purposes. It involves the measurement of the key components in PDT-light fluence (rate), photosensitizer concentration, and ground-state oxygen concentration ([³O₂])-to calc...

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...

The authors present a radiochromic film dosimetry protocol for a multicolor channel radiochromic film dosimetry system consisting of the external beam therapy (EBT) model GAFCHROMIC film and the Epson Expression 1680 flat-bed document scanner. Instead of extracting only the red color channel, the authors are using all three color channels in the absorption spectrum of the EBT film to extend the...

This special issue of the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry is dedicated to the Proceedings of the International Conference on Individual Monitoring of Ionising Radiation (IM2015) held in Bruges, Belgium, from 20 to 24 April 2015. IM2015 was the fifth of a series of conferences dealing with individual monitoring. This conference series is initiated by EURADOS, the European Radiation Dosime...

UNLABELLED In some patients with well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma, dosimetry is necessary to avoid toxicity from therapy and to guide prescription of the administered activity of radioiodine. METHODS The presentations and courses of 2 patients exemplify the points. In the second patient, the clues to the need for dosimetry were the large size of the tumor and high circulating levels of t...

In-vivo dosimetry techniques are currently being applied only by a few Centers because they require time-consuming implementation measurements, and workload for detector positioning and data analysis. The transit in-vivo dosimetry performed by the electronic portal imaging device (EPID) avoids the problem of solid-state detector positioning on the patient. Moreover, the dosimetric characterizat...