Poster - Thurs Eve-37: Energy and irradiation modality independence of calibration coefficients for water equivalent plastic scintillation detectors in the megavoltage range

Medical Physics
Mathieu GuillotLuc Gingras

Abstract

To demonstrate that the independence of the calibration coefficients of plastic scintillation detector (PSD) for both photon and electron beams in the megavoltage energy range. The PSD consists in a small 1 mm diameter and 2 mm long plastic scintillating fiber made of a polystyrene core (BCF-12, Saint-Gobain, inc.). The scintillator was coupled to a 2 meters long non-scintillating plastic optical fiber and a color CCD camera (Apogee instruments inc.) was used as photodetector. The calibration coefficients of the PSD where extracted for 6 MV, 23 MV photon beams and 9,12,15 and 18 MeV electron beams using a Farmer ionization chamber (Exradin). Complete removal of the Cerenkov radiation produced in the optical fiber was performed with a chromatic discrimination technique using the blue and green channel of the CCD camera. All measurements were performed according to the recommendations of the AAPM TG-51 protocol for clinical dosimetry. The PSD exhibits a maximum deviation of less than 1.7 % (about the mean) of its calibration coefficients over the measured energy range for both irradiation modalities. The energy independence of the calibration coefficients for PSD was demonstrated experimentally for the first time for both photons...Continue Reading

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