Investigation of linear accelerator pulse delivery using fast organic scintillator measurements
Publication: Research - peer-review › Conference article – Annual report year: 2010
Fiber-coupled organic plastic scintillators present an attractive method for time-resolved dose measurements during radiotherapy. Most organic scintillators exhibit a fast response, making it possible to use them to measure individual high-energy X-ray pulses from a medical linear accelerator. This can be used in complex treatment procedures such as gated intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT)1, where the advantage of dose rate measurements of high temporal resolution is highly emphasized. We report on development of a fast data acquisition scintillator-based system as well as measurements performed on Varian medical linear accelerators, delivering 6 MV X-ray beams. The dose delivery per radiation pulse was found to agree with expectations within roughly 1%, although minor discrepancies and transients were evident in the measurements.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Radiation Measurements |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Journal number | 3-6 |
| Pages | 668-670 |
| ISSN | 1350-4487 |
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| State | Published |
Conference
| Conference | 7th European Conference on Luminescent Detectors and Transformers of Ionizing Radiation |
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| Number | 7 |
| Country | Poland |
| City | Kraków |
| Period | 12-07-09 → 17-07-09 |
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 3 |
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Keywords
- Radiation research and nuclear technologies, Radiation physics
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