DocumentCode
409241
Title
Radiation-acoustic monitoring of therapeutic beam
Author
Kalinichenko, A.I. ; Lazurik, V.T. ; Popov, GF ; Tovstiak, V.V.
Author_Institution
Kharkov Nat. Univ., Ukraine
Volume
2
fYear
2003
fDate
12-16 May 2003
Firstpage
1080
Abstract
A method of dose field control in patient´s body during radiation treatment is proposed. It is based on detection of thermoacoustic pulse to be generated by pulsed radiation beam in vivo and on reconstruction of dose field characteristics by stress amplitude. A possible scheme of realization of the proposed method is considered. Typical variants of dose fields and corresponding solutions of radiation thermoacoustic equation are discussed. The values of stress pulses and accuracy of dose field location are estimated for electron, X-ray and proton beams.
Keywords
dosimetry; laser applications in medicine; radiation therapy; thermoacoustics; dose field control; pulsed radiation beam; radiation thermoacoustic equation; radiation treatment; radiation-acoustic monitoring; therapeutic beam; thermoacoustic pulse detection; Character generation; Electron beams; Equations; In vivo; Medical treatment; Patient monitoring; Pulse generation; Radiation detectors; Radiation monitoring; Thermal stresses;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the
ISSN
1063-3928
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7738-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PAC.2003.1289611
Filename
1289611
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