background: skin cancer can be treated by various methods. electron radiotherapy has been a useful therapeutic modality in the treatment of skin cancers in areas which are difficult to cure by other methods. depth dose distribution of 166ho using varskin2 code is presented in this work. material and methods: depth dose distribution of 166ho was calculated, using varskin2 code by adding of 166ho...

background and objective: the most common intravascular brachytherapy sources include 32p, 188re, 106rh and 90sr/90y. in this research, skin absorbed dose for different covering materials in dealing with these sources were evaluated and the best covering material for skin protection and reduction of absorbed dose by radiation staff was recognized and recommended. method: four materials includin...

In vivo dosimetry is important during radiotherapy to ensure the accuracy of the dose delivered to the treatment volume. A dosimeter should be characterized based on its application before it is used for in vivo dosimetry. In this study, we characterize a new MOSFET-based detector, the MOSkin detector, on surface for in vivo skin dosimetry. The advantages of the MOSkin detector are its water eq...

The failure of the depletion approximation in the near surface region implies that conventional MOS C-V measurements yield erroneous doping profiles in that region. Integrating MOS C-V doping profiles yields only a partial dose excluding the important surface dose portion. Here, we report a new approach, which enables the determination of the entire doping dose, taking into account the crucial ...

background: the assessment of rbe quantity in the treatment of cancer tumors with proton beams in treatment planning systems (tps) is of high significance. given the significance of the issue and the studies conducted in the literature, this quantity is fixed and is taken as equal to 1.1. objective: the main objective of this study was to assess rbe quantity of proton beams and their variations...

introduction intensity-modulated radiotherapy (imrt) is becoming an increasingly routine treatment method. imrt can be delivered by use of conventional multileaf collimators (mlcs) and/or physical compensators. one of the most important factors in selecting an appropriate imrt technique is integral dose. integral dose is equal to the mean energy deposited in the total irradiated volume of the p...