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Article Dans Une Revue Medical Physics Année : 2008

The DosiMap, a new 2D scintillating dosimeter for IMRT quality assurance: Characterization of two Cerenkov discrimination methods

G. Ban
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J. Colin
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M. Labalme
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A. Batalla
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A. Vela
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P. Boher
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M. Braud
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T. Leroux
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Résumé

New radiation therapy techniques such as IMRT present significant efficiency due to their highly conformal dose distributions. A consequence of the complexity of their dose distributions (high gradients, small irradiation fields, low dose distribution, ...) is the requirement for better precision quality assurance than in classical radiotherapy in order to compare the conformation of the delivered dose with the planned dose distribution and to guarantee the quality of the treatment. Currently this control is mostly performed by matrices of ionization chambers, diode detectors, dosimetric films, portal imaging, or dosimetric gels. Another approach is scintillation dosimetry, which has been developed in the last 15 years mainly through scintillating fiber devices. Despite having many advantages over other methods it is still at an experimental level for routine dosimetry because the ?erenkov radiation produced under irradiation represents an important stem effect. A new 2D water equivalent scintillating dosimeter, the DosiMap, and two different Cerenkov discrimination methods were developed with the collaboration of the Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire of Caen, the Comprehensive Cancer Center François Baclesse, and the ELDIM Co., in the frame of the MAESTRO European project. The DosiMap consists of a plastic scintillating sheet placed inside a transparent polystyrene phantom. The light distribution produced under irradiation is recorded by a CCD camera. Our first Cerenkov discrimination technique is subtractive. It uses a chessboard pattern placed in front of the scintillator, which provides a background signal containing only Cerenkov light. Our second discrimination technique is colorimetric. It performs a spectral analysis of the light signal, which allows the unfolding of the Cerenkov radiation and the scintillation. Tests were carried out with our DosiMap prototype and the performances of the two discrimination methods were assessed. The comparison of the dose measurements performed with the DosiMap and with dosimetric films for three different irradiation configurations showed discrepancies smaller than 3.5% for a 2 mm spatial resolution. Two innovative discrimination solutions were demonstrated to separate the scintillation from the Cerenkov radiation. It was also shown that the Dosi- Map, which is water equivalent, fast, and user friendly, is a very promising tool for radiotherapy quality assurance.
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in2p3-00354893 , version 1 (21-01-2009)

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A.M. Frelin-Labalme, J.M. Fontbonne, G. Ban, J. Colin, M. Labalme, et al.. The DosiMap, a new 2D scintillating dosimeter for IMRT quality assurance: Characterization of two Cerenkov discrimination methods. Medical Physics, 2008, 35, pp.1651-1662. ⟨10.1118/1.2897966⟩. ⟨in2p3-00354893⟩
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