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Study of Fricke-gel dosimeter calibration for attaining precise measurements of the absorbed dose

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  1. Department of Energy, Nuclear Engineering Division, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, (Italy)
  2. Department of Physics, Universita degli Studi di Milano and INFN, (Italy)
  3. Department of Physics, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, (Italy)
  4. Medical Physics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, (Italy)
A method has been studied for attaining, with good precision, absolute measurements of the spatial distribution of the absorbed dose by means of the Fricke gelatin Xylenol Orange dosimetric system. With this aim, the dose response to subsequent irradiations was analyzed. In fact, the proposed modality is based on a pre-irradiation of each single dosimeter in a uniform field with a known dose, in order to extrapolate a calibration image for a subsequent non-uniform irradiation with an un-known dose to be measured. (authors)
Research Organization:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE, 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10016-5997 (United States)
OSTI ID:
22531278
Report Number(s):
ANIMMA--2015-IO-227
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English