Saminathan Sathiyan, Godson Henry Finlay, Ponmalar Retna, Manickam Ravikumar, Mazarello James
Department of Radiation Physics, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
ROSALINA India Private Limited, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
J Med Phys. 2016 Oct-Dec;41(4):234-239. doi: 10.4103/0971-6203.195187.
The well-type ionization chamber has been designed for convenient use in brachytherapy source strength calibration. The chamber has a volume of 240 cm, weight of 2.5 kg, and is open to atmospheric conditions. The well-type ionization chamber dosimetric characteristics such as leakage current, stability, scattering effect, ion collection efficiency, and nominal response with energy were studied. The evaluated dosimetric characteristics of well-type ionization chamber were compared with two other commercially available well-type ionization chambers. The study shows that the newly developed well-type ionization chamber is reliable for air-kerma strength calibration. The results obtained confirm that this chamber can be used for the calibrations of high-dose rate brachytherapy sources.
井型电离室专为近距离放射治疗源强度校准的便捷使用而设计。该电离室体积为240立方厘米,重量为2.5千克,且对大气环境开放。研究了井型电离室的剂量学特性,如漏电流、稳定性、散射效应、离子收集效率以及随能量的标称响应。将评估得到的井型电离室剂量学特性与另外两种市售井型电离室进行了比较。研究表明,新开发的井型电离室在空气比释动能强度校准方面是可靠的。所得结果证实该电离室可用于高剂量率近距离放射治疗源的校准。