ABSTRACT Background: In vivo measurements of applied dose during radiotherapy treatment, is important to ensure accurate dose delivery to patients. Uncertainty in dose delivery should fall within ±5% of the prescribed dose as recommended by ICRU. Assessment of dose for radiotherapy applications performed with various types of detectors. In this study, semiconductor diodes were used which have s...

Background: The success of radiation therapy depends on accurate dose delivery to the target. Diode in vivo measurement of entrance and exit dose is a valuable quality assurance (QA) tool to ensure accurate dose delivery.  Materials and Methods: This study was performed at BINO Cancer Hospital, Bahawalpur. Entrance and exit dose measurements were done with p-type diode for various types of canc...

In general, dose evaluation for mammography uses average glandular dose (AGD). In mammography, entrance surface dose (ESD) is high, which is well known, but actual clinical data of ESD are not reported so much. This study investigated AGD and ESD for patients whose doses were estimated from 200 mammography examinations using European Organization for Quality-Assured Breast Screening and Diagnos...

PURPOSE To investigate a technique for optimizing radiation dose and image quality for a computed radiography system. METHODS Entrance skin doses were measured for phantom models of the pelvis and lumbar spine imaged using the vendor's recommended exposure settings (ie, the reference doses) as well as doses above and below the vendor's recommended settings for both body parts. Images were ass...

The knowledge of the radiation dose received by the patient during the radiological examination is essential to prevent risks of exposures. The aim of this work is to study patient doses for common diagnostic radiographic examinations in hospitals affiliated to Kashan University of Medical sciences, Iran. The results of this survey are compared with those published by some national and internat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to show the effectiveness of a new radiation protection method designed to decrease the amount of scatter radiation received by practitioners performing procedures under fluoroscopic guidance. MATERIALS AND METHODS A sterile, disposable, lead-free surgical drape containing radiation protection material composed primarily of bismuth was evaluated for effe...

Systems based on the detection of Compton backscattered X rays have been deployed for screening personnel for weapons and explosives. Similar principles are used for screening vehicles at border-crossing points. Based on well-established scattering cross sections and absorption coefficients in conjunction with reasonable estimates of the image contrast and resolution, the entrance skin dose and...

introduction: skin dose and depth dose distribution of some beta sources that can contaminate skin or protective clothing covering the skin have been calculated using varskin2. materials and methods: in this research, absorbed dose to skin and depth dose from the skin surface have been calculated for 90sr/90y, 147pm, 32p beta emitter radioisotopes by using input parameters: activity of source, ...