Radiation Therapy Dosimetry: A Practical Handbook

505 Pages·2021·37.174 MB·English

by  Arash Darafsheh

Radiation Therapy Dosimetry
A Practical Handbook

Radiation Therapy Dosimetry
A Practical Handbook
Edited By
Arash Darafsheh
First edition published 2021
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Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data
Names: Darafsheh, Arash, editor. Title: Radiation therapy dosimetry : a
practical handbook / edited by Arash Darafsheh. 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://
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ISBN: 9781138543973 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781351005388 (ebk)
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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
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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
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