*Corresponding author: Dr. Mostafa Ghafoori, Radiation Dosimetry and Monitoring group, Agricultural, Medical and Industrial Research School (AMIRS), Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (NSTRI), Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), P.O. Box 31485-498 Karaj, Iran. Fax: +98 261 4464058 E-mail: [email protected] Background: Absolute dosimetry of external beam radiotherapy is c...

introduction: radiotherapy is a common treatment modality for patients with head and neck malignancies. as the nose lies within the field of radiotherapy of the head and neck, the olfactory fibers and olfactory receptors may be affected by radiation. the aim of this study was to evaluate changes in olfactory threshold in patients with head and neck malignancies who have received radiation to th...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of transperineal polyethylene glycol (PEG) hydrogel insertion into anterior perirectal fat for reducing rectal radiation dose in patients with suboptimal rectal dosimetry after permanent iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS Five patients with suboptimal rectal dosimetry after iodine-125 seed brachytherapy implant underwent a single tr...

Introduction: Internal radiation dosimetry is important from a radiation protection point of view and can help to optimize the radiation dose delivered to the workers, public, and patients. It has a rather simple protocol but needs a large amount of data. Therefore, it is difficult to do on a routine basis. The use of computer programs makes internal radiation dosimetry simpler...

We congratulate the authors for reporting their results. Ege et al. have shared their results that they got from the fluoroscopy device retrospectively. We think that this study method could not prove the exact amount of radiation exposure that impacts the surgical team correctly. The authors compare their study with similar studies (2, 3) that measure radiation exposure by dosimetry as more ob...

Fricke gel dosimetry is a valuable method for in-phantom dose measurements in complex irradiation modalities like IMRT and BNCT. Implementation of this dosimetry technique requires dedicated instruments capable of measuring and further analysis immediately in situ at the radiation facility. This work presents a novel and integral dosimetry system aimed to attain portability requirements. The me...

Radiation dosimetry is fundamental in Medical Physics, involving patients and phantom dosimetry. In both cases thennoluminescence dosimetry (TLD) is the most appropriate technique for measuring the absorbed dose. In this paper thennoluminescence phenomenon as well as the use of TLD in radiodiagnosis and radiotherapy for in vivo or in phantom measurements is discussed. Some results of measuremen...

The development of radionuclide therapies during the past few decades provides a growing body of data on radiobiologic effects, including normal tissue toxicities and antitumor efficacy. Information on normal tissue toxicity from radionuclides is more limited than that from external beam radiation and appears to be more variable. Much of the increased variability is attributed to heterogeneous ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background: the angular dependency of response for tld cards may cause deviation  from its true value on the results of environmental dosimetry, since tlds may  be exposed to radiation at different angles of incidence from the surrounding area. objective: a 3d setting of tld cards has been calibrated isotropically in a standard  radiation field to eval...