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HVL Measurement of the Miniature X-Ray Tube Using Diode Detector  

Kim, Ju-Hye (Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University)
An, So-Hyeon (Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University)
Oh, Yoon-Jin (Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University)
Ji, Yoon-Seo (Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University)
Huh, Jang-Yong (Department of Medical Science, Ewha Womans University)
Kang, Chang-Mu (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
Suh, Hyunsuk (Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University)
Lee, Rena (Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.23, no.4, 2012 , pp. 279-284 More about this Journal
Abstract
The X ray has been widely used in both diagnosis and treatment. Recently, a miniature X ray tube has been developed for radiotherapy. The miniature X ray tube is directly inserted into the body irradiated, so that X rays can be guided to a target at various incident angles according to collimator geometry and, thus, minimize patient dose. If such features of the miniature X ray tube can be applied to development of X ray imaging as well as radiation treatment, it is expected to open a new chapter in the field of diagnostic X ray. However, the miniature X ray tube requires an added filter and a collimator for diagnostic purpose because it was designed for radiotherapy. Therefore, a collimator and an added filter were manufactured for the miniature X ray tube, and mounted on. In this study, we evaluated beam characteristics of the miniature X ray tube for diagnostic X ray system and accuracy of measuring the HVL. We used the Si PIN Photodiode type Piranha detector (Piranha, RTI, Sweden) and estimated the HVL of the miniature X ray tube with added filter and without added filter. Through an another measurement using Al filter, we evaluated the accuracy of the HVL obtained from a direct measurement using the automatic HVL calculation function provided by the Piranha detector. As a result, the HVL of the miniature X ray tube was increased around 1.9 times with the added filter mounted on. So we demonstrated that the HVL was suitable for diagnostic X ray system. In the case that the added filter was not mounted on, the HVL obtained from use of the automatic HVL calculation function provided by Piranha detector was 50% higher than the HVL estimated using Al filter. Therefore, the HVL automatic measurement from the Piranha detector cannot be used for the HVL calculation. However, when the added filter was mounted on, the HVL automatic measurement value using the Piranha detector was approximately 15% lower than the estimated value using Al filter. It implies that the HVL automatic measurement can be used to estimate the HVL of the miniature X ray tube with the added filter mounted on without a more complicated measurement method using Al filter. It is expected that the automatic HVL measurement provided by the Piranha detector enables to make kV-X ray characterization easier.
Keywords
Miniature X ray tube; HVL; Added filter;
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