• DocumentCode
    3356662
  • Title

    Plastic scintillator dosimetry in radiology applications

  • Author

    Oliveira, Carmen H. ; Rego, Florbela ; Peralta, Luis ; Abreu, Maria C.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. de Instrumentacao e Fis. de Particulas, Lisbon, Portugal
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    23-29 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1612
  • Lastpage
    1615
  • Abstract
    Plastics have attractive characteristics that can be exploit in dosimetry. Nevertheless their application with low-energy photon beam is still limited. We aim to a better understanding of their capabilities at the radiology regime. A study of the characteristics of a polystyrene scintillator dosimeter, coupled to a WLS fiber is made in this work. The energy dependence for this detector is extracted for photon beams between 20 and 100 kVp and additional filtrations of 0.5, 1 and 4 mm of Al.
  • Keywords
    dosimeters; solid scintillation detectors; WLS fiber; low-energy photon beam; plastic scintillator dosimetry; polystyrene scintillator dosimeter; radiology applications; radiology regime; Filtration; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Valencia
  • ISSN
    1082-3654
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0118-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154644
  • Filename
    6154644
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3356662