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An insight on using in-vivo diode dosimetry to verify the delivered ‎doses during radiotherapy

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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In-vivo dosimetry (IVD) is one of the most accurate ways for determining the dosage provided to ‎the patient ‎during treatment‏.‏‎ The aim of this work is to verify whether patients were receiving the ‎accurate prescribed dose. Which occurs by assessing the dose delivery errors,‎‏ ‎caused by human or ‎equipment malfunctioning, using in-vivo diode dosimetry (IVDD).‎‎‏ ‏In total, 302 fields were ‎performed for 80 cases, including pelvis, abdomen, thorax, and head and neck (H & N)‎‏ ‏patients. ‎Prior to the clinical application, Alderson Rando phantom was used to evaluate the diodes' ‎dependability as a complement to the validation process. ‎The results revealed that the measured ‎dose of the ‎phantom ‎was within ±5% of the planned dose‎. Additionally, patients'‎‏ ‏doses achieved ‎‎91.4%‎ of the measured dose were within ±5% of the planned dose. Of the other 8.6%, about 5.6 ‎‎% of the measured doses were more than 5% and less than 10% and ‎only 3% were larger than ‎‎10% of the planned dose.‎ The outlying values that were more than 5% were repeated as in-vitro ‎measurements on a phantom‎ and the deviations were within ‎‎±5%. This study demonstrated that ‎diode measurements provide an immediate readout during the ‎treatment process and it is reliable ‎as quality assurance for linear ‎accelerator. Moreover, ‎IVDD is capable of detecting major and ‎common treatment errors such as patient setup errors and ‎incorrect source surface distance.‎

DOI

10.21608/ajnsa.2023.170144.1651

Keywords

In-vivo dosimetry, Diode dosimetry, In-vitro dosimetry, treatment errors, quality assurance

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Jamal

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AL-Shareef

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M.

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Department of Physics, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen.‎

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jamal777207713@gmail.com

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0000000216932406

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Reem

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Elgebaly

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Hassan

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Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo university

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relgebaly@sci.cu.edu.eg

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First Name

Ehab

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Attalla

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Department of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Egypt.‎

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attalla.ehab@gmail.com

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First Name

Nashaat

Last Name

Deiab

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Ahmed

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Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Dept., National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University. Cairo, Egypt

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nashaatad@hotmail.com

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Cairo

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0000-0002-8139-8924

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Dalal

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Aqmar

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M.

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Department of Physics, Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen.‎

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dalal_m12@yahoo.com

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0000000190880395

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Mohamed

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Fathy

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-

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Biophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo university

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mfathy@sci.cu.edu.eg

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56

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3

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40413

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2023-04-01

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2022-10-22

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2023-04-01

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121

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128

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1110-0451

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2090-4258

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455

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Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

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https://ajnsa.journals.ekb.eg/

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An insight on using in-vivo diode dosimetry to verify the delivered ‎doses during radiotherapy

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23 Dec 2024