Medical dosimetry using a RL/OSL prototype

Luana de Freitas Nascimento, Filip Vanhavere, Eric Boogers, Jan Vandecasteele, Yves De Deene

Research outputpeer-review

Abstract

A portable and robust instrument has been developed for the routine assessment of patient exposure to ionizing radiation during radiotherapy treatments. The design principles of hardware and software are described, along with preliminary measurements that illustrate the operation of the system and its capabilities. In this study the authors used radioluminescence (RL) and Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) from Al2O3:C detectors coupled to a PMMA optical fibre to acquire dose in medical dosimetry. The RL/OSL prototype can provide two independent dose estimates from the same in vivo treatment: one integrated dose estimate (OSL) and one real-time dose estimate (RL), which can be compared to one another. The authors first characterized the dose–response to a calibration source (137Cs), analysing the OSL and the RL signal to doses from 0.5 to 3 Gy. Later the percentage dose depth from RL is presented for two gamma (6 and 15 MV) and two electron (6 and 12 MeV) medical beams.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)359-363
JournalRadiation Measurements
Volume71
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Dec 2014

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