Polymer gel dosimetry

C Baldock, Y De Deene, S Doran, G Ibbott… - Physics in Medicine …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Polymer gel dosimeters are fabricated from radiation sensitive chemicals which, upon
irradiation, polymerize as a function of the absorbed radiation dose. These gel dosimeters …

Radiation dosimetry by use of radiosensitive hydrogels and polymers: mechanisms, state-of-the-art and perspective from 3D to 4D

Y De Deene - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gel dosimetry was developed in the 1990s in response to a growing need for methods to
validate the radiation dose distribution delivered to cancer patients receiving high-precision …

[BOOK][B] Handbook of radiotherapy physics: theory and practice

P Mayles, A Nahum, JC Rosenwald - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

[BOOK][B] Intensity-modulated radiation therapy

S Webb - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Clinical conformal radiotherapy is the holy grail of radiation treatment and is now becoming
a reality through the combined efforts of physical scientists and engineers, who have …

Chemical overview of gel dosimetry systems: a comprehensive review

MA Macchione, S Lechón Páez, MC Strumia… - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Advances in radiotherapy technology during the last 25 years have significantly improved
both dose conformation to tumors and the preservation of healthy tissues, achieving almost …

A basic study of some normoxic polymer gel dosimeters

Y De Deene, C Hurley, A Venning… - Physics in Medicine …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Polymer gel dosimeters offer a wide range of potential applications in the three-dimensional
verification of complex dose distribution such as in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) …

The fundamental radiation properties of normoxic polymer gel dosimeters: a comparison between a methacrylic acid based gel and acrylamide based gels

Y De Deene, K Vergote, C Claeys… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Polymer gel dosimeters offer a wide range of applications in the three-dimensional
verification of complex dose distributions such as in intensity-modulated radiotherapy. One …

High resolution gel‐dosimetry by optical‐CT and MR scanning

M Oldham, JH Siewerdsen, A Shetty… - Medical …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The increased intricacy of Intensity‐Modulated‐Radiation‐Therapy (IMRT) delivery has
created the need for a high‐resolution 3D‐dosimetry (three‐dimensional) system capable of …

Physical and numerical phantoms for the validation of brain microstructural MRI: A cookbook

E Fieremans, HH Lee - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Phantoms, both numerical (software) and physical (hardware), can serve as a gold standard
for the validation of MRI methods probing the brain microstructure. This review aims to …

Polymer gel dosimeters with reduced toxicity: a preliminary investigation of the NMR and optical dose–response using different monomers

RJ Senden, P De Jean, KB McAuley… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, three new polymer gel dosimeter recipes were investigated that may be more
suitable for widespread applications than polyacrylamide gel dosimeters, since the …