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Variation of Dose due to the Wound Electrode of Ionization Chamber

굴곡이 있는 전리함 집전극에 기인한 선량 변화

  • 이병구 (고려대학교의료원 안암병원 방사선종양학과) ;
  • 김정남 (경희의료원 방사선종양학과)
  • Published : 2008.11.28
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Abstract

Nowadays the risk of radiation is getting more serious, so we must know the exact dose that was irradiated, Because very high radiation dose is used in radiation therapy field. We used the ionization chamber which measure the radiation dose in this study. We tried to know the incorrect result from the distortion of geometric structure of ionization chamber and we studied how to find the distortion of geometric structure of ionization chamber. We used a radio fluoroscopy to find the wound degree of electrode of ionization chamber and a reconstructed 3D CT image to analyze the wound degree of electrode quantitatively. we measured degree of distortion by comparing with absorbed dose of normal electrode and wound electrode. The comparative result is not absolute dosimetry at specific point but relative dosimetry between thats. We measured 4 MV, 10MV photon with same absorbed dose and dose rate. The degree of distortion of wound electrode was totally $5.5{\sim}7.2%$, and there was no difference between two energies. The variation induced from radiation dose to be irradiated and dose rate, and the degree of distortion from wound direction also was almost similar value. We could find that the geometric structure of ionization chamber that can influence a basic measurement of radiation dose can be changed by old usage and inattention of management in this study, especially winding of electrode can be happened, in radiation therapy field, It is very important to keep precise radiation dose quantitatively.

방사선 치료분야에서 인체에 조사되는 방사선 양은 수 ${\sim}$ 수 십 Gy로 매우 높기 때문에 항상 정확히 다루어져야 한다. 본 논문의 실험을 위해 전리함(ionization chamber)이 사용되었다. 품질관리프로토콜 (quality assurance protocol) 없이 사용되는 전리함의 상태를 파악하고, 전리함의 본래 기하학적 구조가 변형되었을 때 변화된 값을 측정하였다. 지두형 전리함의 집전극 휨 정도를 알아내기 위해 방사선 투시장치와 CT 3차원 영상으로 재구성하여 휨 정도를 정량화 하였다. 그리고 기하학적 구조가 정상적인 전리함과 측정값을 비교하여 그 값의 왜곡정도를 알아보았고, 선량측정은 4MV, 10MV photon 두 종류를 같은 선량과 선량율로 하였다. 집전극이 휘어진 전리함의 흡수선량의 왜곡정도는 대략 $5.5{\sim}7.2%$ 정도 값 이었으며 에너지에 대한 차이는 거의 없었다. 본 연구를 통해 전리함의 기하학적 구조가 시간 경과, 장비의 취급 부주위 등에 따라 변형 될 수 있고, 특히 집전극의 휨 현상이 발생할 수 있다는 것을 알았다. 또한 평소에 인지하지 못하는 곳에서도 많은 왜곡과 오차를 만들어 낼 수 있다는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

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