Mass-manufacturable scintillation-based optical fiber dosimeters for brachytherapy.

Brachytherapy Compression moulding Inorganic scintillators Optical fiber Radiation sensor

Journal

Biosensors & bioelectronics
ISSN: 1873-4235
Titre abrégé: Biosens Bioelectron
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9001289

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
21 Mar 2024
Historique:
received: 18 12 2023
revised: 08 03 2024
accepted: 20 03 2024
medline: 28 3 2024
pubmed: 28 3 2024
entrez: 27 3 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Scintillation-based fiber dosimeters are a powerful tool for minimally invasive localized real-time monitoring of the dose rate during Low Dose Rate (LDR) and High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy (BT). This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of such dosimeters, consisting of scintillating sensor tips attached to polymer optical fiber (POF). The sensor tips consist of inorganic scintillators, i.e. Gd

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116237 PMID: 38537429
pubmed: 38537429
pii: S0956-5663(24)00242-2
doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2024.116237
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

116237

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Agnieszka Gierej (A)

Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics, Brussels, Belgium.

Tigran Baghdasaryan (T)

Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics, Brussels, Belgium.

Michael Martyn (M)

Department of Medical Physics, Blackrock Health - Galway Clinic, Doughiska, Co. Galway, Ireland; Physics Unit, School of Natural Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.

Peter Woulfe (P)

Department of Medical Physics, Blackrock Health - Galway Clinic, Doughiska, Co. Galway, Ireland.

Owen Mc Laughlin (O)

The Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology (CCRCB) at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Kevin Prise (K)

The Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology (CCRCB) at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Geraldine Workman (G)

The Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology (CCRCB) at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

Sinead O'Keeffe (S)

Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Kurt Rochlitz (K)

Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics, Brussels, Belgium.

Sergey Verlinski (S)

Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics, Brussels, Belgium.

Agnese Giaz (A)

Università Degli Studi Dell'Insubria, Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Via Valleggio 11, Como, Italy.

Romualdo Santoro (R)

Università Degli Studi Dell'Insubria, Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Via Valleggio 11, Como, Italy.

Massimo Caccia (M)

Università Degli Studi Dell'Insubria, Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Via Valleggio 11, Como, Italy.

Francis Berghmans (F)

Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics, Brussels, Belgium.

Jürgen Van Erps (J)

Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Flanders Make, Dept. of Applied Physics and Photonics, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: jurgen.van.erps@vub.be.

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