Rapid Multisite Remote Surface Dosimetry for Total Skin Electron Therapy: Scintillator Target Imaging.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The goal of this work is to produce a surface-dosimetry method capable of accurately and remotely measuring skin dose for patients undergoing total skin electron therapy (TSET) without the need for postexposure dosimeter processing. A rapid and wireless surface-dosimetry system was developed to improve clinical workflow. Scintillator-surface dosimetry was conducted on patients undergoing TSET by imaging scintillator targets with an intensified camera during TSET delivery.

Methods and materials

Disc-shaped scintillator targets were attached to the skin surface of patients undergoing TSET and imaged with an intensified, time-gated, and linear accelerator-synchronized camera. Optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters (OSLDs) were placed directly adjacent to scintilla

SUBMITTER: Tendler I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6642820 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature