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Reading Deviations of Glass Rod Dosimeters Using Different Pre-processing Methods for Radiotherapeutic in-vivo Dosimetry  

Jeon, Hosang (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Nam, Jiho (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Park, Dahl (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Yong Ho (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Wontaek (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Kim, Dongwon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Ki, Yongkan (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Donghyun (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Lee, Ju Hye (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.24, no.2, 2013 , pp. 92-98 More about this Journal
Abstract
The experimental verification of treatment planning on the treatment spot is the ultimate method to assure quality of radiotherapy, so in-vivo skin dose measurement is the essential procedure to confirm treatment dose. In this study, glass rod dosimeter (GRD), which is a kind of photo-luminescent based dosimeters, was studied to produce a guideline to use GRDs in vivo dosimetry for quality assurance of radiotherapy. The pre-processing procedure is essential to use GRDs. This is a heating operation for stabilization. Two kinds of pre-processing methods are recommended by manufacturer: a heating method (70 degree, 30 minutes) and a waiting method (room temperature, 24 hours). We equally irradiated 1.0 Gy to 20 GRD elements, and then different preprocessing were performed to 10 GRDs each. In heating method, reading deviation of GRDs at same time were relatively high, but the deviation was very low as time went on. In waiting method, the deviation among GRDs was low, but the deviation was relatively high as time went on. The meaningful difference was found between mean reading values of two pre-processing methods. Both methods present mean dose deviation under 5%, but the relatively high effect by reading time was observed in waiting method. Finally, GRD is best to perform in-vivo dosimetry in the viewpoint of accuracy and efficiency, and the understanding of how pre-processing affect the accuracy is asked to perform most accurate in-vivo dosimetry. The further study is asked to acquire more stable accuracy in spite of different irradiation conditions for GRD usage.
Keywords
Treatment dose verification; Glass rod dosimeter; Pre-processing method;
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