background: the dosimetric performance of eclipse 6.5 three dimensional treatment planning system (3dtps) is evaluated by comparing the calculated and measured dose in two dimensions following the guide lines of american association for physicists in medicine task group 53. materials and methods: the calculations were performed by the 3dtps for symmetric as well as asymmetric fields for standar...

The suitability of a natural diamond detector with a special contact system for the measurement of relative dose distributions in selected radiotherapy applications was studied. The performance of the diamond detector was analysed by comparison with measurements using an ionization chamber and a silicon diode detector. The good stability, high response and good spatial resolution of the diamond...

ÐMeasurement of lepton contamination is achieved across a radiotherapy photon beam and peripheral doses using radiochromic ®lm. An extrapolation technique is used where several layers are suspended in air to measure incident contamination without the e€ects of phantom scatter. Surface dose was measured as 11% of Dmax for 6 MV beams at central axis and 9% for 10 MV photons for a 10 10 cm ®eld si...

The concept of in-air output ratio Sc was introduced to characterize how the incident photon fluence per monitor unit or unit time for a Co-60 unit varies with collimator settings. However, there has been much confusion regarding the measurement technique to be used that has prevented the accurate and consistent determination of Sc. The main thrust of the report is to devise a theoretical and m...

A deficiency in the implementation of current radiation protection is determination ambient dose equivalent H *(10) and directional H´ (0.07) pulsed fields. Conventional dosimeter systems are not suitable for measurements photon fields comprising short pulses, which consequently leads to high detector loads time periods. Nevertheless, due advanced medical accelerators cancer therapy, new diagno...

A study of the measurement of the two photon decay width times the branching ratio of a Higgs boson with the mass of 120 GeV in photon photon collisions is presented, assuming a γγ integrated luminosity of 80 fb−1 in the high energy part of the spectrum. The analysis is based on the reconstruction of the Higgs events produced in the γγ → H process, followed by the decay of the Higgs into a bb̄ p...

We propose a Bell-measurement scheme by employing a logical qubit in Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement with an arbitrary number of photons. Remarkably, the success probability of the Bell measurement as well as teleportation of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement can be made arbitrarily high using only linear optics elements and photon on-off measurements as the number of photon...

Introduction: This paper analyses the ability of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) for neural imaging. The current trend in the production of SPADs moves toward the minimumdark count rate (DCR) and maximum photon detection probability (PDP). Moreover, the jitter response which is the main measurement characteristic for the timing uncertainty is progressing. Methods: The neural imaging pro...

Brass mesh bolus has been shown to be an acceptable substitute for tissue-equivalent bolus to increase superficial dose for chest wall tangent photon radiotherapy. This work investigated the increase in surface dose, the change in the dose at depth, and the safety implications of higher energy photon beams when using brass mesh bolus for postmastectomy chest wall radiotherapy. A photon tangent ...

We evaluate a photon convolution-superposition algorithm used to model a fast neutron therapy beam in a commercial treatment planning system (TPS). The neutron beam modeled was the Clinical Neutron Therapy System (CNTS) fast neutron beam produced by 50 MeV protons on a Be target at our facility, and we implemented the Pinnacle3 dose calculation model for computing neutron doses. Measured neutro...