Quality Control of Ionizing Radiation in Radiotherapy
( Evolution of Ionizing Radiation Research )
Publication series ： Evolution of Ionizing Radiation Research
Author： Ernesto Lamanna Bianco Cataldo Giulia Marvaso Marco D’Andreaand Lidia Strigari
Publisher： IntechOpen
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: INT5933060421
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789535121671
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9789535121671
Subject： O57 Nuclear physics, high energy physics
Keyword： 原子核物理学、高能物理学
Language： ENG
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Quality Control of Ionizing Radiation in Radiotherapy
Description
This work includes the results of our research on the measurement of the dose delivered by an external beam in radiotherapy. The use of scintillating fibers in high-energy experiments produced rapid and reliable results and allows new dosimeters to be built and extends their use to measure the dose of an external beam of electrons, photons, and hadrons in radiotherapy.The chapter starts from the description of the radiation used in radiotherapy, presents the new approaches and then the tools used to perform the quality control of therapeutic beams, and finally shows the characteristics and differences compared to the traditional quality controls by using our results on the scintillating fibers used as a dosimeter. Some care should be taken into account during the collection and processing of data, for the treatment of some systematic errors in the method. In this chapter, we describe the procedure to be followed.
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