In vivo dosimeters for HDR brachytherapy: A comparison of a diamond detector, MOSFET, TLD, and scintillation detector

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1759-1765

  Lambert, Jamil ^a,b   Nakano, Tatsuya ^a   Law, Sue ^a,c   Elsey, Justin ^d   McKenzie, David R ^a   Suchowerska, Natalka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Optical Fibre Technology Centre   (Australia)

^d Australian Technology Park   (Australia)

Author keywords

192Ir; Brachytherapy; In vivo dosimetry; Plastic scintillator

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; DOSIMETRY; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MOSFET DEVICES; ONCOLOGY; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; BACKGROUND SIGNALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; ERENKOV RADIATIONS; IN-VIVO; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ^192IR;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAMOND DETECTOR; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION DETECTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

EID: 34247616143     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2727248     Document Type: Article

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