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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2019.13.3.333

Feasibility Study of Phosphor Particle Blended Hybrid Dosimeter for Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy  

Shin, Yohan (Department of Radiation Oncology, Collage of Medicine, Inje University)
Han, Moojae (Department of Radiation Oncology, Collage of Medicine, Inje University)
Jung, Jaehoon (Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Cho, Heunglae (Department of Radiation Oncology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University)
Park, Sungkwang (Department of Radiation Oncology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.13, no.3, 2019 , pp. 333-338 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the field of radiotherapy, the Quality Assurance(QA) procedure to verify the safety of treatment is considered to be very important. However, due to various problems of the conventional dosimeters used for the QA, researches on these dosimeters have been actively carried out to replace them. In this study, to maximize the sensitivity by visible light(VL) emitted from phosphors, blended hybrid sensors were fabricated by blending various weight percent(wt%) of $Gd_2O_2S:Tb$ which is a phosphor with excellent fluorescence efficiency into $PbI_2$. Then, the electrical properties to high energy radiation from the blended sensors and the pure $PbI_2$ sensor were compared and evaluated. As a result of the sensitivity evaluation, the sensor of 3wt% showed the highest value with more than 40% difference from the other sensors, and gradual decreasing in sensitivity was observed with increasing wt% except for the sensor of 3wt%. Also, in the reproducibility evaluation, the pure $PbI_2$ sensor exhibited a large variation in coefficient of variation(CV)>0.015, while all the blended sensors showed CV<0.015.
Keywords
Radiation therapy; Quality Assurance; Photoconductor; phosphor; Lead(II) Iodide; Hybrid;
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