Dosímetro FXGB para caracterização de feixes em radioterapia / FXGB Dosimeter for Beam Characterization in Radiotherapy.

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2006

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Since the X rays discovery for Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895, the medicine started to use the ionizing radiation for some cancers treatments. However, to obtain higher precision in the treatments is necessary an adequate quality control, which is a medical physicist responsibility in the service. This work was developed to assist the medical physicist on the quality control through an simple, inexpensive and commercially accessible dosimetry. From the chemical dosimetry Fricke improvement in 2000 [BERO et al, 2000], through the orange xilenol and 300 Bloom gelatin addition, it was shown a sensibility and chemicalstability improvement. However, the high cost and difficulty to import the gelatin and necessity to utilize an spectrophotometer to determine the absorbed dose lead us to find another new gelatin adequate for the measurements. The new FXGB dosimeter was characterized for photons (1,25 MeV) and electrons (5, 7 and 10 MeV) and applied for some electrons beam physical determination as: field factor, field profile and depth dose percentage (PDD). From the obtained results, the FXGB dosimetric system (FXGB gel + prototype RADIARE III) show a promising option to assist the quality control in an radiotherapy service.

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