Relative efficiency of radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeters in a scanning pencil proton beam

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.111396" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.111396</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.111396" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.radphyschem.2023.111396</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Relative efficiency of radiophotoluminescent glass dosimeters in a scanning pencil proton beam

Original language description

The increasing role of hadron therapy, and particularly of proton therapy, in cancer treatment requires dosimetric characterization of luminescent detectors in heavy charged particle beams. The ionization density, which is related to the linear energy transfer (LET), is changing when heavy charged particle is penetrating through a material. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate how efficiency of the used dosimeters depends on the change in LET.The aim of this study was to evaluate relative efficiency of radiophotoluminescent (RPL) glass dosimeters (type GD-352M) in a clinical scanning pencil proton beam of 100 MeV and compare it to the results obtained with thermoluminescent (TL) dosimeters (type TLD-100). LETf and LETd at the selected dosimeter's position were evaluated and compared by two Monte Carlo codes (MCNP and PHITS). Linear dose response is precondition for the evaluation of dosimeter efficiency and first, dose response in proton beam was evaluated and compared with those in 60Co gamma ray field.Linear dose response up to 9 Gy was confirmed for RPLs in proton beam, and gamma ray field. For TLDs, supralinearity from about 5 Gy was observed. A constant relative efficiency is observed along the plateau (corresponding to LETf from 0.7 keV/mu m to 1.7 keV/mu m) of non-modulated proton beam with an average value 1.00 +/- 0.02 for RPL and 0.97 +/- 0.02 for TL dosimeters. Relative efficiency decrease of 10 % is observed for RPLs within the Bragg peak with LETf = 2.3 keV/mu m. Future work will be focused on the evaluation of the efficiency for higher LET values using more energetic proton beams and precise positioning along the Bragg peak.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30224 - Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

ISSN

0969-806X

e-ISSN

1879-0895

Volume of the periodical

216

Issue of the periodical within the volume

MAR

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

111396

UT code for WoS article

001132601400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85178160954