Determination of absorbed dose to water around a clinical HDR192Ir source using LiF:Mg,Ti TLDs demonstrates an LET dependence of detector response

Åsa Carlsson Tedgren; Rouba Elia; Håkan Hedtjärn; Sara Olsson; Gudrun Alm Carlsson

doi:10.1118/1.3675401

journal article Feb 06, 2012

Determination of absorbed dose to water around a clinical HDR192Ir source using LiF:Mg,Ti TLDs demonstrates an LET dependence of detector response

Åsa Carlsson Tedgren Rouba Elia Håkan Hedtjärn Sara Olsson Gudrun Alm Carlsson

Medical Physics Vol. 39 No. 2 pp. 1133-1140 · Wiley

View at Publisher Save 10.1118/1.3675401

Topics

No keywords indexed for this article. Browse by subject →

References

29

[1]

Rivard "Update of AAPM Task Group No. 43 Report: A revised AAPM protocol for brachytherapy dose calculations" Med. Phys. (2004) 10.1118/1.1646040

[2]

Nath "Dosimetry of interstitial brachytherapy sources: Recommendations of the AAPM radiation therapy committee Task Group No. 43" Med. Phys. (1995) 10.1118/1.597458

[3]

I. C. W. G. (ICWG) (1990)

[4]

Carlsson Tedgren "Response of LiF:Mg,Ti thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs) at photon energies relevant to the dosimetry of brachytherapy (<1 MeV)" Med. Phys. (2011) 10.1118/1.3633892

[5]

Davis "The response of LiF thermoluminescence dosemeters to photon beams in the energy range from 30 kV x rays to 60Co gamma rays" Radiat. Prot. Dosim. (2003) 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006332

[6]

Nunn "LiF: Mg, Ti TLD response as a function of photon energy for moderately filtered x-ray spectra in the range 20-250 kvP relative to 60Co" Med. Phys. (2008) 10.1118/1.2898137

[7]

Shortt "The response of LiF TLDs to 137Cs and 60Co γ rays" Radiat. Prot. Dosim. (1997) 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031912

[8]

Raffi "Determination of exit skin dose for 192Ir intracavitary accelerated partial breast irradiation with thermoluminescent dosimeters" Med. Phys. (2010) 10.1118/1.3429089

[9]

Taylor "EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculated dosimetry parameters for 192Ir and 169Yb sources" Med. Phys. (2008) 10.1118/1.2987676

[10]

Carlsson Tedgren "Influence of phantom material and dimensions on experimental 192Ir dosimetry" Med. Phys. (2009) 10.1118/1.3121508

[11]

Specification of high activity gamma-ray sources 1970

[12]

Horowitz "Letter to the editor-update on AAPM Task Group No. 43 report-brachytherapy and TLD" Radiat. Prot. Dosim. (2009) 10.1093/rpd/ncp018

[13]

Evaluation of a lithium formate EPR dosimetry system for dose measurements around brachytherapy sources

Laura Antonovic, Håkan Gustafsson, Gudrun Alm Carlsson et al.

Medical Physics 2009 10.1118/1.3110068

[14]

Adolfsson "Response of lithium formate EPR dosimeters at photon energies relevant to the dosimetry of brachytherapy" Med. Phys. (2010) 10.1118/1.3475938

[15]

Niewiadomski "25 years of TL dosimetry at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraków" Radiat. Prot. Dosim. (1996) 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031596

[16]

Horowitz "The annealing characteristics of LiF:Mg,Ti" Radiat. Prot. Dosim. (1990)

[17]

Olko "Superlinearity of peak 4 and 5 in thermoluminescent lithium fluoride MTS-N (LiF:Mg,Ti) detectors at different Mg and Ti concentration" Radiat. Meas. (2001) 10.1016/s1350-4487(01)00182-2

[18]

Boutillon "Ionometric determination of absorbed dose to water for cobalt-60 gamma rays" Phys. Med. Biol. (1993) 10.1088/0031-9155/38/3/010

[19]

P. Andreo D. T. Burns K. Hohlfeld M. S. Huq T. Kanai F. Laitano V. Smyth S. Vynckier Absorbed dose determination in external beam radiotherapy: An international code of practice for dosimetry based on absorbed dose to water 2000

[20]

Seuntjens "Absorbed dose to water reference dosimetry using solid phantoms in the context of absorbed-dose protocols" Med. Phys. (2005) 10.1118/1.2012807

[21]

Ballester "Technical note: Monte-Carlo dosimetry of the HDR 12i and plus 192Ir sources" Med. Phys. (2001) 10.1118/1.1420398

[22]

Burlin (1968)

[23]

I. Kawrakow D. W. O. Rogers The EGSnrc code system: Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon transport 2006

[24]

M. J. Berger J. H. Hubbell S. M. Seltzer J. Chang J. Coursey R. Sukumar D. Zucker XCOM: Photon Cross Section Database (version 1.3 http://physics.nist.gov/xcom 2005

[25]

M. J. Berger J. Coursey M. Zucker J. Chang ESTAR, PSTAR and ASTAR: Computer Programs for Calculating Stopping-Power and Range Tables for Electrons, Protons, and Helium Ions.(version 1.2.3) http://physics.‘.gov/Star 2005

[26]

Guide to the expression of uncertainties in measurements (GUM) 1995

[27]

Bastin "The transit dose component of high dose rate brachytherapy: Direct measurements and clinical implications" Int. J. Radiat. Oncol., Biol., Phys. (1993) 10.1016/0360-3016(93)90291-3

[28]

Wong "Transit dose of an Ir-192 high dose rate brachytherapy stepping source" Phys. Med. Biol. (2001) 10.1088/0031-9155/46/2/304

[29]

Kirov "TLD, diode and Monte Carlo dosimetry of an I92Ir source for high dose-rate brachytherapy" Phys. Med. Biol. (1995) 10.1088/0031-9155/40/12/002

Cited By

22

Using LiF:Mg,Cu,P TLDs to estimate the absorbed dose to water in liquid water around an192Ir brachytherapy source

P. Avilés Lucas, I. Aubineau-Lanièce · 2013

Medical Physics

Metrics

22

Citations

29

References

Details

Published: Feb 06, 2012
Vol/Issue: 39(2)
Pages: 1133-1140
License: View

Authors

�

Åsa Carlsson Tedgren

Department of Oncology Pathology Karolinska Institute Stockholm Sweden; Department of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm Sweden; Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences Linköping University Linköping Sweden

Radiation Physics, Department of Medical and Health Sciences Linköping University SE‐581 85 Linköping Sweden

Cite This Article

Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Rouba Elia, Håkan Hedtjärn, et al. (2012). Determination of absorbed dose to water around a clinical HDR192Ir source using LiF:Mg,Ti TLDs demonstrates an LET dependence of detector response. Medical Physics, 39(2), 1133-1140. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3675401

Determination of absorbed dose to water around a clinical HDR192Ir source using LiF:Mg,Ti TLDs demonstrates an LET dependence of detector response

You May Also Like