Characterization of a fiber‐coupled luminescence dosimetry system for online in vivo dose verification during brachytherapy

CE Andersen, SK Nielsen, S Greilich… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A prototype of a new dose‐verification system has been developed to facilitate prevention
and identification of dose delivery errors in remotely afterloaded brachytherapy. The system …

A phantom study of an in vivo dosimetry system using plastic scintillation detectors for real‐time verification of 192Ir HDR brachytherapy

F Therriault‐Proulx, TM Briere, F Mourtada… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The goal of the present work was to evaluate the accuracy of a plastic scintillation
detector (PSD) system to perform in‐phantom dosimetry during192Ir high dose rate (HDR) …

In vivo verification of superficial dose for head and neck treatments using intensity‐modulated techniques

ZY Qi, XW Deng, SM Huang, L Zhang, ZC He… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Skin dose is one of the key issues for clinical dosimetry in radiation therapy. Currently
planning computer systems are unable to accurately predict dose in the buildup region …

Time‐resolved in vivo luminescence dosimetry for online error detection in pulsed dose‐rate brachytherapy

CE Andersen, SK Nielsen, JC Lindegaard… - Medical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present and evaluate a dose‐verification protocol for
pulsed dose‐rate (PDR) brachytherapy based on in vivo time‐resolved (1 s time resolution) …

MOSkin dosimetry for an ultra-high dose-rate, very high-energy electron irradiation environment at PEER

J Cayley, YRE Tan, M Petasecca, D Cutajar… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
FLASH radiotherapy, which refers to the delivery of radiation at ultra-high dose-rates
(UHDRs), has been demonstrated with various forms of radiation and is the subject of …

Source position verification and dosimetry in HDR brachytherapy using an EPID

RL Smith, ML Taylor, LN McDermott, A Haworth… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Accurate treatment delivery in high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy requires
correct source dwell positions and dwell times to be administered relative to each other and …

Characterization of MOSkin detector for in vivo skin dose measurement during megavoltage radiotherapy

WL Jong, JHD Wong, NM Ung, KH Ng… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Physics-aspects of dose accuracy in high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy: source dosimetry, treatment planning, equipment performance and in vivo verification …

A Palmer, D Bradley, A Nisbet - Journal of contemporary brachytherapy, 2012 - termedia.pl
Purpose The need for dosimetric accuracy in external beam radiotherapy is well established
[1, 2]. A standard requirement of the combined uncertainties in absorbed dose delivery is …

BrachyView, a novel in‐body imaging system for HDR prostate brachytherapy: Experimental evaluation

M Safavi‐Naeini, Z Han, S Alnaghy, D Cutajar… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This paper presents initial experimental results from a prototype of high dose rate
(HDR) BrachyView, a novel in‐body source tracking system for HDR brachytherapy based …

In vivo measurements for high dose rate brachytherapy with optically stimulated luminescent dosimeters

R Sharma, PA Jursinic - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To show the feasibility of clinical implementation of OSLDs for high dose‐rate
(HDR) in vivo dosimetry for gynecological and breast patients. To discuss how the OSLDs …