Dosimetric characteristics of fabricated Ge-doped silica optical fibre for small-field dosimetry
We study 3 mm long germanium-doped (Ge-doped) silica fibres for small-field dosimetry, seeking to overcome spatial resolution and charged-particle disequilibrium issues, also any associated dose deviation from that of computerised treatment plan dose delivery. Investigation has been made of the ther...
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doaj-99eba01dd6674bf4897aafc7978e7af52020-11-24T21:20:54ZengElsevierResults in Physics2211-37972019-03-0112816826Dosimetric characteristics of fabricated Ge-doped silica optical fibre for small-field dosimetryS.E. Lam0D.A. Bradley1R. Mahmud2M. Pawanchek3H.A. Abdul Rashid4N. Mohd Noor5Department of Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom; Sunway University, Centre for Biomedical Physics, Jalan Universiti, 46150 Petaling Jaya, MalaysiaDepartment of Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Radiotherapy and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Presint 7, 62250 Putrajaya, MalaysiaFaculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, 63100 Cyberjaya, MalaysiaDepartment of Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Corresponding author.We study 3 mm long germanium-doped (Ge-doped) silica fibres for small-field dosimetry, seeking to overcome spatial resolution and charged-particle disequilibrium issues, also any associated dose deviation from that of computerised treatment plan dose delivery. Investigation has been made of the thermoluminescent (TL) dependency of locally fabricated 6 mol% Ge-doped preforms subsequently made into cylindrical (CF) and flat fibres (FF), also commercial Ge-doped fibres (COMM), the dopant and mechanical strain created in fibres production providing the trapping levels generating the TL yield. A Perspex phantom was designed for study of angular dependency, fibres being positioned at angles ranging from 0° to 90° while a scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray (SEM/EDX) analysis study allowed evaluation of relative Ge content of the three TL types. Flat Fibre dose repeatability was found to be similar to that for the commercial fibre (in the range 2%–6%), improving appreciably upon that for the cylindrical fibre (<14%), also exhibiting highly linear response up to 80 Gy (R2 ≥ 99%) and near angular independence (<3%). The notable signal fading of the FF (25%) would need to be carefully accounted for in applications. This work provides support for the viability of 6 mol% Ge-doped preforms subsequently fabricated into Flat Fibres for use in small-field dosimetry, offering a suitably dose-sensitive fibre arrangement. Keywords: Ge-doped optical fibre, Thermoluminescence, Megavoltage radiotherapy, Small-field dosimetry, Elemental compositionhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379718325257 |
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Dosimetric characteristics of fabricated Ge-doped silica optical fibre for small-field dosimetry |
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We study 3 mm long germanium-doped (Ge-doped) silica fibres for small-field dosimetry, seeking to overcome spatial resolution and charged-particle disequilibrium issues, also any associated dose deviation from that of computerised treatment plan dose delivery. Investigation has been made of the thermoluminescent (TL) dependency of locally fabricated 6 mol% Ge-doped preforms subsequently made into cylindrical (CF) and flat fibres (FF), also commercial Ge-doped fibres (COMM), the dopant and mechanical strain created in fibres production providing the trapping levels generating the TL yield. A Perspex phantom was designed for study of angular dependency, fibres being positioned at angles ranging from 0° to 90° while a scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray (SEM/EDX) analysis study allowed evaluation of relative Ge content of the three TL types. Flat Fibre dose repeatability was found to be similar to that for the commercial fibre (in the range 2%–6%), improving appreciably upon that for the cylindrical fibre (<14%), also exhibiting highly linear response up to 80 Gy (R2 ≥ 99%) and near angular independence (<3%). The notable signal fading of the FF (25%) would need to be carefully accounted for in applications. This work provides support for the viability of 6 mol% Ge-doped preforms subsequently fabricated into Flat Fibres for use in small-field dosimetry, offering a suitably dose-sensitive fibre arrangement. Keywords: Ge-doped optical fibre, Thermoluminescence, Megavoltage radiotherapy, Small-field dosimetry, Elemental composition |
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