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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2019.14.1.1

Study on the Applicability of Semiconductor Compounds for Dose Measurement in Electron Beam Treatment  

Yang, Seungwoo (Department of Radiation Oncology, Collage of Medicine, Inje University)
Han, Moojae (Department of Radiation Oncology, Collage of Medicine, Inje University)
Shin, Yohan (Department of Radiation Oncology, Collage of Medicine, Inje University)
Jung, Jaehoon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Collage of Medicine, Inje University)
Choi, Yunseon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University)
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.14, no.1, 2020 , pp. 1-6 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, it was intended to replace the existing plane parallel ionization chamber, which requires cross-calibration in electron beam treatment. The semiconductor compounds HgI2 was fabricated as detector, and the characteristics of HgI2 detector for the 6, 9 and 12 MeV electron beam was analyzed in the linear accelerator. It was also intended to evaluate the possibility of substitution with existing detectors and their applicability as electron beam dosimetry and to use them as a basic study of the development of electronic beam dosimeter. As a result of reproducibility, RSD was 0.4246%, 0.5054%, and 0.8640% at 6, 9, and 12 MeV energy, respectively, indicating that the output signal was stable. As a result of the linearity, the R2 was 0.9999 at 6 MeV, 0.9996 at 9 MeV, and 0.9997 at 12 MeV showed that the output signal is proportional to HgI2 as the dose is increased. The HgI2 detector of this study is highly applicable to electron beam measurement, and it may be used as a basic research on electron beam detection.
Keywords
Radiation therapy; Electron; Detector; Semi-conductive compound; Mercury(II) Iodide;
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