Clinical Dosimetry Measurements in Radiotherapy

Monograph No. 34

D.W.O. Rogers, Janet E. Cygler

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

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.

Table of contents

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