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Radiation Therapy Dosimetry A Practical Handbook Radiation Therapy Dosimetry A Practical Handbook Edited By Arash Darafsheh First edition published 2021 by CRC Press 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 and by CRC Press 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or the consequences of their use. The authors and publishers have attempted to trace the copyright holders of all material reproduced in this publication and apologize to copyright holders if permission to publish in this form has not been obtained. If any copyright material has not been acknowledged please write and let us know so we may rectify in any future reprint. 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Description: First edition. | Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020040810 (print) | LCCN 2020040811 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138543973 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351005388 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Radiotherapy. | Radiation dosimetry. Classification: LCC RM849 .R325 2021 (print) | LCC RM849 (ebook) | DDC 615.8/42--dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2020040810LC ebook record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/2020040811 ISBN: 9781138543973 (hbk) ISBN: 9781351005388 (ebk) Typeset in Minion by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd Contents Preface ix About the Editor, xi Contributors, xiii Part I Radiation Dosimeters and Dosimetry Techniques ChaPter 1 ◾ F undamentals of Radiation Physics and Dosimetry 3 Blake r. SmIth and larry a. deWerd ChaPter 2 ◾ I onization Chamber Instrumentation 19 larry a. deWerd and Blake r. SmIth ChaPter 3 ◾ C alorimetry 31 larry a. deWerd and Blake r. SmIth ChaPter 4 ◾ S emiconductor Dosimeters 39 GIordano BIaSI, nICholaS hardCaStle and anatoly B. roSenfeld ChaPter 5 ◾ F ilm Dosimetry 61 SIna moSSaheBI, nazanIn hoShyar, rao khan and araSh darafSheh ChaPter 6 ◾ T hermoluminescence Dosimetry 75 tomaS kron and Peta lonSkI ChaPter 7 ◾ O ptically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimeters in Clinical Practice 97 StePhen f. kry and JennIfer o’danIel ChaPter 8 ◾ E PID-Based Dosimetry 109 Brayden SChott, thomaS dverGSten, raman CaleB and Baozhou Sun ChaPter 9 ◾ S cintillation Fiber Optic Dosimetry 123 araSh darafSheh v vi ◾ Contents ChaPter 10 ◾ C herenkov and Scintillation Imaging Dosimetry 139 raChael l. haChadorIan, IrWIn I. tendler and BrIan W. PoGue ChaPter 11 ◾ C linical Considerations and Dosimeters for In Vivo Dosimetry 151 douGlaS BollInGer and araSh darafSheh ChaPter 12 ◾ D osimeters and Devices for IMRT QA 173 neSrIn doGan, mattheW t. StudenSkI and Perry B. JohnSon ChaPter 13 ◾ A rea and Individual Radiation Monitoring 185 nISy elIzaBeth IPe ChaPter 14 ◾ M onte Carlo Techniques in Medical Physics 211 ruIruI lIu, tIanyu zhao and mIlad Baradaran-GhahfarokhI Part II Brachytherapy ChaPter 15 ◾ B rachytherapy Dosimetry 231 ChrIStoPher l. deufel, WeSley S. CulBerSon, mark J. rIvard and fIraS mourtada Part III External Beam Radiation Therapy ChaPter 16 ◾ P hoton Beam Dosimetry of Conventional Medical Linear Accelerators 255 franCISCo J. reynoSo ChaPter 17 ◾ D osimetric Considerations with Flattening Filter-Free Beams 267 JeSSICa lye, StePhen f. kry and JoerG lehmann ChaPter 18 ◾ L inac-Based SRS/SBRT Dosimetry 277 karen ChIn Snyder, nInG Wen and manJu lIu ChaPter 19 ◾ C yberKnife and ZAP-X Dosimetry 305 SonJa dIeterICh, GeorG WeIdlICh and ChrIStoPh fuerWeGer ChaPter 20 ◾ D osimetry in the Presence of Magnetic Fields 315 CarrI GlIde-hurSt, hermann fuChS, dIetmar GeorG and donGSu du ChaPter 21 ◾ H elical Tomotherapy Treatment and Dosimetry 325 reza taleeI and Sarah BoSWell ChaPter 22 ◾ G amma Knife Dosimetry 343 nelS C. knutSon ChaPter 23 ◾ K ilovoltage X-Ray Beam Dosimetry 355 C. m. CharlIe ma Contents ◾ vii ChaPter 24 ◾ E lectron Dosimetry 375 John a. antolak ChaPter 25 ◾ P roton Therapy Dosimetry 393 mIChele m. kIm and erIC S. dIffenderfer ChaPter 26 ◾ I on Range and Dose Monitoring with Positron Emission Tomography 413 katIa ParodI ChaPter 27 ◾ P rompt Gamma Detection for Proton Range Verification 427 Paulo maGalhaeS martInS, rICCardo dal Bello and Joao SeCo ChaPter 28 ◾ A coustic-Based Proton Range Verification 443 kevIn C. JoneS ChaPter 29 ◾ P roton Radiography and Proton Computed Tomography 457 XInyuan Chen and tIanyu zhao Part Iv Imaging Modalities ChaPter 30 ◾ D osimetry of Imaging Modalities in Radiotherapy 467 GeorGe X. dInG INDEX, 479 Preface This book is intended to cover the everyday use and underlying principles of radiation dosimeters used in radiation oncology clinics. It provides an up-to-date reference spanning the full range of current modalities with emphasis on practical know-how. The main audience is medical physicists, radiation oncology physics residents, and medical physics graduate students. This book contains 30 chapters in four main parts. The chapters in Part I deal with the fundamentals of radiation dosimetry, basic physics of various dosimeters, practical dosimetry considerations, and Monte Carlo applications in medical physics. Part II covers the brachytherapy dosimetry. The chapters in Part III deal with external beam radia- tion therapy dosimetry; dosimetry of cutting edge techniques from radiosurgery to MR-guided systems to small fields and proton therapy as well as advanced range verification techniques in proton therapy are addressed in Part III. Part IV is on the dosimetry of imaging modalities in radiotherapy. I sincerely thank all of the authors for their outstanding contributions to this book; their efforts have brought all of the chapters to a very high standard. I am grateful to my mentors, mentees, and colleagues in Washington University in St. Louis and University of Pennsylvania. I am also grateful to the publishing team for their assistance, guidance, and advice throughout the project. Arash Darafsheh Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri ix
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