Treatment of ocular cancers using eye plaque brachytherapy is now an established medical procedure. However, current QA for these eye plaques is quite rudimentary, limiting the opportunities for precise pre-tumour plaque customisation. This paper proposes and experimentally validates a new technique for imaging of eye plaque dose distributions using a high-resolution pixelated silicon detector. Results are presented demonstrating the 2D and 3D isodose surfaces produced using experimental data collected using this method.
Funding
TEMPERATURE STUDY OF CUTTING TOOLS IN CONVENTIONAL CUTTING SPEED RANGE AND IN HIGH-SPEED MACHINING CONDITIONS.
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Weaver, M., Green, J., Petasecca, M., Lerch, M. LF., Cutajar, D., Franklin, D., Jakubek, J., Carolan, M. G., Conway, M., Pospisil, S., Kron, T., Metcalfe, P., Zaider, M. & Rosenfeld, A. B. (2011). Three-dimensional dosimetry imaging of I-125 plaque for eye cancer treatment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 633 (Supp 1), S276-S278.
Journal title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment