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Relative output factor measurements of a 5 mm diameter radiosurgical photon beam using polymer gel dosimetry

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Relative output factor measurements of a 5 mm diameter radiosurgical photon beam using polymer gel dosimetry (EN)
Dalezios, I (EN)
Pappas, E (EN)
Kouloulias, V (EN)
Angelopoulos, A (EN)
Kozicki, M (EN)
Maris, TG (EN)
Petrokokkinos, L (EN)
conferenceItem (EN)
2014-03-01T02:43:29Z
2005 (EN)
Besides the fine spatial resolution inherent in polymer gel-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dosimetry, the method also features the potential for multiple measurements of varying sensitive volume in a single experiment by integrating results in MRI voxels of finite dimensions (i.e., in plane resolution by slice thickness). This work exploits this feature of polymer gel dosimetry to propose an experimental technique for relative output factor (OF) measurements of small radiosurgical beams. Two gel vials were irradiated with a 5 and 30 mm diameter 6 MV radiosurgery beam and MR scanned with the same slice thickness and three different in plane resolutions. Using this experimental data set, 5 mm OF measurements with the PinPoint ion chamber are simulated by integrating results over a sensitive volume equal to that of the chamber. Results are found in agreement within experimental uncertainties with actual PinPoint measurements verifying the validity of the proposed experimental procedure. The polymer gel data set is subsequently utilized for OF measurements of the 5 mm beam with varying sensitive volume to discuss the magnitude of detector volume averaging effects. Seeking to correct for volume averaging, results are extrapolated to zero sensitive volume yielding a 5 mm OF measurement of (0.66 +/- 5%). This result compares reasonably with corresponding ionometric and radiographic film measurements of this work and corresponding, limited, data in the literature. Overall, results suggest that polymer gel dosimetry coupled with the proposed experimental procedure helps overcome not only tissue-equivalence and beam perturbation implications but also volume averaging and positioning uncertainties which constitute the main drawback in small radiosurgical beam dosimetry. (c) 2005 American Association of Physicists in Medicine. (EN)
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging (EN)
polymer (EN)
Output factors (EN)
dosimetry (EN)
nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (EN)
Radiosurgery (EN)
Polymer gel (EN)
gel (EN)
Radiometry (EN)
Dosimetry (EN)
priority journal (EN)
Polymers (EN)
Radiotherapy Dosage (EN)
Gels (EN)
ionization chamber (EN)
Radiotherapy, High-Energy (EN)
radiation beam (EN)
Ions (EN)
Photons (EN)
mathematical analysis (EN)
radiosurgery (EN)
Calibration (EN)
Radiation Dosage (EN)
conference paper (EN)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (EN)
light (EN)
Phantoms, Imaging (EN)
X ray film (EN)
Particle Accelerators (EN)
Medical Physics (EN)
English
AMER ASSOC PHYSICISTS MEDICINE AMER INST PHYSICS (EN)
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