PIXEL-BASED CORRECTION METHOD FOR GAFCHROMIC (R) EBT FILM DOSIMETRY
- Authors
- Jeong, HS[Jeong, Hae Sun]; Han, Y[Han, Youngyih]; Kum, O[Kum, Oyeon]; Kim, CH[Kim, Chan Hyeong]; Ju, SG[Ju, Sang Gyu]; Shin, JS[Shin, Jung Suk]; Kim, JS[Kim, Jin Sung]; Park, JH[Park, Joo Hwan]
- Issue Date
- Dec-2010
- Publisher
- KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
- Keywords
- EBT Film; Flat-Bed Scanner; Non-Uniform Dose Correction
- Citation
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.42, no.6, pp.670 - 679
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 42
- Number
- 6
- Start Page
- 670
- End Page
- 679
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/72622
- ISSN
- 1738-5733
- Abstract
- In this paper, a new approach using a pixel-based correction method was developed to fix the non-uniform responses of flat-bed type scanners used for radiochromic film dosimetry. In order to validate the method's performance, two cases were tested: the first consisted of simple dose distributions delivered by a single port; the second was a complicated dose distribution composed of multiple beams. In the case of the simple individual dose condition, ten different doses, from 8.3 cGy to 307.1 cGy, were measured, horizontal profiles were analyzed using the pixel-based correcton method and compared with results measured by an ionization chamber and results corrected using the existing correction method. A complicated inverse pyramid dose distribution was made by piling up four different field shapes, which were measured with GAFCHROMIC (R) EBT film and compared with the Monte Carlo calculation; as well as the dose distribution corrected using a conventional method. The results showed that a pixel-based correction method reduced dose difference from the reference measurement down to 1% in the flat close distribution region or 2 mm in a steep dose gradient region compared to the reference data, which were ionization chamber measurement data for simple cases and the MC computed data for the complicated case, with an exception for very low doses of less than about 10 cGy in the simple case. Therefore, the pixel-based scanner correction method is expected to enhance the accuracy of GAFCHROMIC (R) EBT film dosimetry, which is a widely used tool for two-dimensional dosimetry.
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