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The "push-pull" dosimeter: When two pigments are better than one
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Bosi, SG and Baldock, C and Smee, R, The "push-pull" dosimeter: When two pigments are better than one, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 250, (1) pp. 1-5. ISSN 1742-6588 (2010) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1088/1742-6596/250/1/012010
Abstract
A new kind of gel dosimeter (the "push-pull" dosimeter) is proposed which would contain two spectrally complementary pigments, one which darkens with increasing dose and another which bleaches. The bleaching pigment would be optimised for high sensitivity and the darkening pigment for low sensitivity. By employing dual pigments optimised independently, the usual requisite compromises between sensitivity at low dose and accuracy at high dose would be relaxed. Such a gel, after exposure would be read using two successive optical CT scans employing two different scan wavelengths. The use of dual pigments could also reduce the occurrence of regions of high optical attenuation which generate artefacts in optical CT. This paper also presents results of simulations of the behaviour of such a gel when scanned using optical cone beam CT.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | gel dosimeter, optical attenuation, computerized tomography |
| Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Medical and biological physics |
| Research Field: | Medical physics |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Other health |
| Objective Field: | Other health not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Baldock, C (Professor Clive Baldock) |
| ID Code: | 116147 |
| Year Published: | 2010 |
| Deposited By: | Strategic Research Funding |
| Deposited On: | 2017-05-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-09-25 |
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