Title :
Embedded system based dosimetry of variable energies for medical application
Author :
Patil, Akshay B. ; Patil, Rajesh ; Vidwans, Mandar ; Dsouza, Kelvin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Veermata Jijabai Technol. Inst., Mumbai, India
Abstract :
Modern radiotherapy depends largely on accurate dose delivery to the given target volume. Before going into clinical use, the calibration of the photon and electron beams produced by radiotherapy machine has to be done. The overall accuracy in tumor dose delivery should be below 3 percent. But on an evaluation of errors in dose delivery in a clinical setting, to achieve this accuracy is not an easy task. The idea of this system basically deals with an automatic switching of radiation energies, amplification and dose calibration. As the system is so crucial there is a need to add the concept of the amplification by Programmable Gain Amplifiers (PGA) through Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) control.
Keywords :
calibration; dosimetry; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; radiation therapy; tumours; FPGA; accurate dose delivery; automatic switching; electron beam calibration; embedded system based dosimetry; field programmable gate array control; medical application; modern radiotherapy; photon calibration; programmable gain amplifiers; radiation energies; tumor dose delivery; variable energies; Accuracy; Electron beams; Field programmable gate arrays; Ionization chambers; Photonics; Radiation detectors; Receivers; Dosimetry; FPGA; Gas filled detectors; Ionization chamber; PGA; Radiotherapy; Radiotherapy machine; UART;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pune
DOI :
10.1109/IIC.2015.7150857