Adlienė Diana, Jakštas Karolis, Urbonavičius Benas Gabrielis
Physics Department, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų g. 50, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania
Šiauliai County Hospital, V.Kudirkos g. 99, LT-76231 Šiauliai, Lithuania.
Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2015 Jul;165(1-4):477-81. doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncv054. Epub 2015 Mar 24.
Routine in vivo dosimetry is well established in external beam radiotherapy; however, it is restricted mainly to detection of gross errors in high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy due to complicated measurements in the field of steep dose gradients in the vicinity of radioactive source and high uncertainties. The results of in vivo dose measurements using TLD 100 mini rods and TLD 'pin worms' in catheter-based HDR brachytherapy are provided in this paper alongside with their comparison with corresponding dose values obtained using calculation algorithm of the treatment planning system. Possibility to perform independent verification of treatment delivery in HDR brachytherapy using TLDs is discussed.
