Procedure for accurate fabrication of tissue compensators with high-density material

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 415-421

  Mejaddem, Younes ^a,b   Lax, Ingmar ^b   Adakkai, K Shamsuddin ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYSTYRENES; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031058075     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/2/013     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Ahnesjö A 1995 Modelling transmission and scatter for photon beam attenuators Med. Phys. 22 1711-20
2. Ansbacher W, Robinson D M and Scrimger J W 1992 Missing tissue compensators: evaluation and optimization of a commercial system Med. Phys. 19 1267-72
3. Arora V R and Weeks K J 1994 Characterization of gypsum attenuators for radiotherapy dose modification Med. Phys. 21 77-80
4. Boyer A L 1982 Compensating filters for high energy x rays Med. Phys. 9 429-33
5. Chu T, Lee K and Dunscombe P 1993 A technique for the evaluation of a missing tissue compensator system Med. Phys. 20 713-16
6. Constantinou C and Harrington J C 1989 Tissue compensator made of solid water or lead for megavoltage x-ray radiotherapy Med. Dosim. 14 41-7
7. El-Khatib E E, Podgorsak E B and Pla C 1987 Broad beam and narrow beam attenuation in Lipowitz's metal Med. Phys. 14 135-9
8. Ellis F, Hall E J and Oliver R 1959 A compensator for variation in tissue thickness for high energy beams Br. J. Radiol. 32 421-2
9. Ellis F and Lescrenier C 1973 Combined compensation for contours and heterogeneity Radiology 106 191-4
10. Feaster G R, Agarawal S K, Huddleston A L and Friesen E J 1979 A missing tissue compensator Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 5 277-80
11. Henderson S D, Purdy J A, Gerber R L and Mestman S J 1987 Dosimetry considerations for a Lipowitz metal tissue compensator system Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 13 1107-12
12. Hine G J 1951 Scattering of secondary electrons produced by gamma rays in materials of various atomic numbers Phys. Rev. 82 755-6
13. Huen A, Findley O D and Skor D D 1979 Attenuation in Lipowitz's metal of X-ray produced at 2, 4, 10, and 18 MV and gamma rays from cobalt-60 Med. Phys. 6 147-8
14. Islam M K and Van Dyk J 1995 Effects of scatter generated by beam-modifying absorbers in megavoltage photon beams Med. Phys. 22 2075-81
15. Johnson J M, Ali M M and Khan F M 1988 Quality control of custom-made compensators Med. Dosim. 13 109-11
16. Khan F M, Moore V C and Burns D J 1970 The construction of compensators for cobalt teletherapy Radiology 96 187-92
17. Laurance G 1973 Relative surface doses from super voltage radiation Radiology 109 437-42
18. Lawrence E R 1992 New approach to tissue compensation in radiation oncology Advances in Radiation Oncology (AAPM Medical Physics Monograph 19) ed J A Purdy (New York: American Institute of Physics) pp 559-69
19. Mattsson L 1996 (Personal Communication) Surface Evaluation Laboratory, Institute of Optical Research, Stockholm, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
20. Nilsson Bo 1985 Electron contamination from different materials in high energy photon beams Phys. Med. Biol. 30 139-51
21. Purdy J A, Keys D J and Zivnuska F 1977 A compensation filter for chest portals Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 2 1213-15
22. Quast U and Krause K 1973 New individual tissue compensators for high energy photons Strahlentherapie 154 333-41
23. Robinson D M and Scrimger J W 1987 Megavoltage photon beam dose reduction with retracted tissue compensators Phys. Med. Biol. 32 1031-7
24. Sewchand W, Bautro N and Scott R M 1980 Basic data on tissue-equivalent compensators for 4-MV x-ray Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 6 327-32
25. Spicka J, Fleury K and Powers W 1988 Polyethylene-lead tissue compensators for megavoltage radiotherapy Med. Dosim. 13 25-7
26. Van Santvoort J P C, Binnekamp D, Heijmen B J M and Levendag P C 1995 Granulate of stainless steel as compensator material Radiother. Oncol. 34 78-80
27. Weeks K J, Fraass B A and Hutchins K M 1988 Gypsum mixtures for compensator construction Med. Phys. 15 410-14
28. Wilks R and Casebow M P 1969 Tissue compensation with lead for cobalt-60 therapy Br. J. Radiol. 42 452-6