Devic, S.
, Nada, T.
, Soares, C.
and Podgorsak, E.
(2009),
Optimizing the Dynamic Range Extension of a Radiochromic Film Dosimetry System, Medical Physics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=900183
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Optimizing the Dynamic Range Extension of a Radiochromic Film Dosimetry System
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Slobodan Devic, Tomic Nada, , Ervin Podgorsak
Abstract
We present a radiochromic film dosimetry protocol for a multi-color channel radiochromic film dosimetry system consisting for the EBT model GAFCHROMIC(TM) film and the Epson Expression 1680 flat-bed document scanner. Instead of extracting only the red color channel, we are using all three channels in the absorption spetrum of the EBT film to extend the dynamic dose range of the radiochromic film dosimetry system. By optimizing the dose range for each color channel we obtained a system that has both precision and accuracy below 1.5%, and the optimized ranges are 0 to 4 Gy for the red channel, 4 Gy to 50 Gy for the green channel, and above 50 Gy for the blue channel.Citation
Medical Physics
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pub Type
Journals
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Keywords
flat-bed canner, radiochromic film dosimetry, uncertainty analysis, sensitivity curves
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Created February 27, 2009, Updated October 12, 2021