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Radiochromic film dosimetry: Recommendations of AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 55
Azam Niroomand-Rad,Charles Robert Blackwell,Bert M. Coursey,Kenneth P. Gall,James M. Galvin,William L. McLaughlin,Ali S. Meigooni,Ravinder Nath,James E. Rodgers,Christopher G. Soares +9 more
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Recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine for the radiochromic film dosimetry are presented and have been reviewed and approved by the AAPM Science Council.Abstract:
Recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for the radiochromic film dosimetry are presented. These guidelines were prepared by a task group of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee and have been reviewed and approved by the AAPM Science Council.read more
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sources and effects of ionizing radiation
TL;DR: This annex is aimed at providing a sound basis for conclusions regarding the number of significant radiation accidents that have occurred, the corresponding levels of radiation exposures and numbers of deaths and injuries, and the general trends for various practices, in the context of the Committee's overall evaluations of the levels and effects of exposure to ionizing radiation.
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Update of AAPM Task Group No. 43 Report: A revised AAPM protocol for brachytherapy dose calculations.
Mark J. Rivard,Bert M. Coursey,Larry A. DeWerd,William F. Hanson,M. Saiful Huq,Geoffrey S. Ibbott,Michael G. Mitch,Ravinder Nath,Jeffrey F. Williamson +8 more
TL;DR: An update of the TG-43 protocol for calculation of dose-rate distributions around photon-emitting brachytherapy sources is presented, and a unified approach to comparing reference dose distributions derived from different investigators to develop a single critically evaluated consensus dataset is recommended.
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Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction
TL;DR: An overview of the state of the art of ion acceleration by laser pulses as well as an outlook on its future development and perspectives are given in this article. But the main features observed in the experiments, the observed scaling with laser and plasma parameters, and the main models used both to interpret experimental data and to suggest new research directions are described.
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Review of laser-driven ion sources and their applications.
TL;DR: The historical background including the early laser-matter interaction studies on energetic ion acceleration relevant to inertial confinement fusion is reviewed and several implemented and proposed mechanisms of proton and/or ion acceleration driven by ultra-short high-intensity lasers are described.
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IMRT commissioning: Multiple institution planning and dosimetry comparisons, a report from AAPM Task Group 119
Gary A. Ezzell,Jay Burmeister,Nesrin Dogan,Thomas LoSasso,James Mechalakos,Dimitris Mihailidis,Andrea Molineu,Jatinder R. Palta,Chester R. Ramsey,Bill J. Salter,Jie Shi,Ping Xia,Ning J. Yue,Ying Xiao +13 more
TL;DR: AAPM Task Group 119 has produced quantitative confidence limits as baseline expectation values for IMRT commissioning and locally derived confidence limits that substantially exceed these baseline values may indicate the need for improved IM RT commissioning.
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Sensitometry of the response of a new radiochromic film dosimeter to gamma radiation and electron beams
TL;DR: The present sensitometric study over the breadth of the wide dynamic range of this new routine detector and imaging material, namely, absorbed doses from 10 Gy to 5 × 104 Gy, shows that the response to electrons, in terms of increase in absorbance per unit absorbed dose, is the same as that to gamma radiation within the estimated uncertainty of the measurements.