A review of recent advances in optical fibre sensors for in vivo dosimetry during radiotherapy

S O'Keeffe, D McCarthy, P Woulfe… - The British journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This article presents an overview of the recent developments and requirements in
radiotherapy dosimetry, with particular emphasis on the development of optical fibre …

The thermoluminescence response of doped SiO2 optical fibres subjected to alpha-particle irradiation

AT Ramli, DA Bradley, S Hashim, H Wagiran - Applied Radiation and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Ion beams are used in radiotherapy to deliver a more precise dose to the target volume
while minimizing dose to the surrounding healthy tissue. For optimum dose monitoring in ion …

Dose-rate and the reciprocity law: TL response of Ge-doped SiO2 optical fibers at therapeutic radiation doses

ATA Rahman, A Nisbet, DA Bradley - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in …, 2011 - Elsevier
An investigation has been made on commercially available Ge-doped SiO2 optical fibers as
a novel thermoluminescence system for radiotherapy dosimetry. This dosimeter has …

The thermoluminescence response of Ge-doped silica fibres for synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy dosimetry

ATA Rahman, DA Bradley, SJ Doran, B Thierry… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2010 - Elsevier
In radiation cancer therapy, the aim is to destroy the tumour cells in the treated area while
minimizing damage to the surrounding normal tissue. Synchrotron microbeam radiation …

Glass beads and Ge-doped optical fibres as thermoluminescence dosimeters for small field photon dosimetry

SM Jafari, AI Alalawi, M Hussein… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
An investigation has been made of glass beads and optical fibres as novel dosimeters for
small-field photon radiation therapy dosimetry. Commercially available glass beads of …

An investigation of the thermoluminescence of Ge-doped SiO2 optical fibres for application in interface radiation dosimetry

ATA Rahman, RP Hugtenburg, SFA Sani… - Applied Radiation and …, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigate the ability of high spatial resolution (∼ 120μm) Ge-doped SiO2 TL
dosimeters to measure photoelectron dose enhancement resulting from the use of a …

Suitability of a SiPM photodetector for implementation in an automated thermoluminescent dosimeter reader

MP Taggart, A Charoupa, MWJ Hubbard… - Radiation Physics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
It is widely known that SiPM photodetectors have a strong temperature dependence.
TrueInvivo is currently develo** an automated TLD reader with the intention of replacing …

Measurement of dose enhancement close to high atomic number media using optical fibre thermoluminescence dosimeters

AI Alalawi, RP Hugtenburg, ATA Rahman… - Radiation Physics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Present interest concerns development of a system to measure photoelectron-enhanced
dose close to a tissue interface using analogue gold-coated doped silica-fibre …

Characterisation of sensitive Ge-doped silica flat fibre-based thermoluminescence detectors for high resolution radiotherapy dosimetry

ARA Rahim, NA Zahaimi, HM Zin… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Present study focuses on characterisation of SiO 2 optical fibers as a potential
thermoluminescence (TL) system for radiation therapy dosimetry. Irradiations were made …

Doped SiO2 telecommunication fibre as a 1-D detector for radiation therapy dosimetry

AT Abdul Rahman, SF Abdul Sani… - AIP Conference …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Present studies concern Ge-doped SiO2 telecommunication fibre as a high spatial
resolution 1-D thermoluminescence (TL) system for radiotherapeutic dosimetry. Using tube …