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Study and development of an innovative electron beam imaging system for dosimetry in IORT (Intra Operative Radiation Therapy) by Rosa Brancaccio; Matteo Bettuzzi; Franco Casali; Samantha Cornacchia; Maria Pia Morigi; Alessandro Pasini; C. Ronsivalle; A. Tata is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.
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Intra Operative Radiation Therapy (IORT) is a technique based on delivery of a high dose of ionising radiation to the cancer tissue, after tumour ablation, during surgery, while reducing the exposure of normal surrounding tissue. The Novac7 is a new linear accelerator expressly conceived to perform in the operating theatre. This accelerator supplies electron beams with high dose rate (up to 20 cGy/min). Because of these peculiar characteristics, classical dosimetric techniques are not able to give at once a real-time response and an extensive measure of the absorbed dose. In the framework of a research contract between ENEA (Italian National Agency for Environment and Alternative Energy Research) and the Physics Department of the University of Bologna, Italy, a new system has been developed to study and visualise the Novac7 electron beam. The system is conceived as a grid that consists of two bundles of scintillating optical fibers (SOF) over-crossing each other, optically coupled with two arrays of photodiodes as read-out system. The instrument samples the delivered beam at 100 Hz. A dedicated software collects the signals from the photodiodes and reconstructs the bi-dimensional i
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- Author
- Rosa Brancaccio; Matteo Bettuzzi; Franco Casali; Samantha Cornacchia; Maria Pia Morigi; Alessandro Pasini; C. Ronsivalle; A. Tata
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; ScienceOpen (ISSN 0168-9002)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)