Clinical Dosimetry Measurements in Radiotherapy
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Clinical Dosimetry Measurements in Radiotherapy

Monograph No. 34

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Clinical Dosimetry Measurements in Radiotherapy

Monograph No. 34

About this book

Even though radiation dosimetry is a relatively mature subject, there still was no widely used current book devoted to clinical dosimetry until this 2009 AAPM summer school book. Making sure the dose delivered to the patient is what it should be is one of the most important jobs medical physicists have. There are many aspects to doing this, but at the core, radiation must be accurately measured. One of the original major tasks of the AAPM was to establish methods that its members could use to reliably carry out this task. The successes of this task are found in such things as the clinical dosimetry protocols and formalisms for brachytherapy dosimetry, the development of accredited calibration laboratories, and a myriad of task group reports produced on different dosimetry techniques and delivery modalities.

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Information

Publisher
Medical Physics Publishing
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781936366118
eBook ISBN
9781936366521

Table of contents

  1. CHAPTER 1--A Historical Perspective: A Brief History of Dosimetry, Calibration Protocols, and the Need for Accuracy
  2. CHAPTER 2--Basic Radiation Interactions, Definition of Dosimetric Quantities, and Data Sources
  3. CHAPTER 3--Cavity Theory, Stopping-Power Ratios, Correction Factors
  4. CHAPTER 4--General Characteristics of Radiation Dosimeters and a Terminology to Describe Them
  5. CHAPTER 5--Monte Carlo Applications in Measurement Dosimetry
  6. CHAPTER 6--Ionization Chamber Instrumentation
  7. CHAPTER 7--Review of TG-51 Protocol
  8. CHAPTER 8--Clinical Implementation of the TG-51 Calibration Protocol
  9. CHAPTER 9--The Physics of the AAPM’s TG-51 Protocol
  10. CHAPTER 10--Kilovoltage X-Ray Dosimetry for Radiation Therapy
  11. CHAPTER 11--Dosimetric Characteristics of Clinical Photon Beams
  12. CHAPTER 12--Current Approach in Clinical Electron Beam Dosimetry
  13. CHAPTER 13--Brachytherapy Dose Calculation Formalism, Dataset Evaluation, and Treatment Planning System Implementation
  14. CHAPTER 14--Thermoluminescent Detector and Monte Carlo Techniques for Reference-Quality Brachytherapy Dosimetry
  15. CHAPTER 15--Primary Standards of Air Kerma for 60Co and X-Rays and Absorbed Dose in Photon and Electron Beams
  16. CHAPTER 16--Primary Standards forBrachytherapy Sources
  17. CHAPTER 17--The Calibration Chain: Role of BIPM, PSDLs and ADCLs
  18. CHAPTER 18--QA for Clinical Dosimetry, with Emphasis on Clinical Trials
  19. CHAPTER 19--Dosimetry for IMRT
  20. CHAPTER 20--Dosimetry of Small Photon Beams Used for Stereotactic Radiosurgery/Radiotherapy
  21. CHAPTER 21--Hadron Dosimetry
  22. CHAPTER 22--Treatment of Uncertainties in Radiation Dosimetry
  23. CHAPTER 23--Radiochromic Film
  24. CHAPTER 24--Thermoluminescence Dosimetry
  25. CHAPTER 25--Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dosimetry in Radiotherapy
  26. CHAPTER 26--Radiographic Film
  27. CHAPTER 27--Diamond Detector
  28. CHAPTER 28--Diode Dosimetry for Megavoltage Electron and Photon Beams
  29. CHAPTER 29--MOSFET Dosimetry in Radiotherapy
  30. CHAPTER 30--Gel Dosimetry
  31. CHAPTER 31--Fricke and Alanine Dosimeters
  32. CHAPTER 32--Plastic Scintillation Detectors
  33. APPENDIX A--Stopping-Power Ratios, Ratios of Mass-Energy Absorption Coefficients and CSDA Ranges of Electrons
  34. APPENDIX B--Answers to Problems