Med Phys. 2008 Jul;35(7):3411. doi: 10.1118/1.2965970.

Sci-Fri AM: YIS-08: Prototype fan beam optical computed tomography scanner for three-dimensional dose verification in radiation therapy.

Medical physics

D Rudko, D Wells, A Jirasek

PMID: 28512905 DOI: 10.1118/1.2965970

Abstract

A prototype, rapid, high precision fan beam optical computed tomography (OptCT) scanner for three-dimensional polymer gel dosimetry of complex radiotherapy protocols has been developed. The scanner employs a sixty degree fan beam of 543 nm laser light to interrogate irradiated gel samples up to 19 cm in cross-sectional diameter. Rapid data acquisition with minimal scattered light and minimal refraction and reflection artefacts is achieved with the unique radial design of the front and back apertures of the index matching medium tank, concentric arrangement of a CNC machined collimator and five photodiode detector arrays for light detection. Characteristics of the scanner include: an SNR of optical absorbance in light field projections of up to 100:1; SNR of optical absorbance in transmission projections of up to 92:1 for phantoms with absorbances ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 and a spatial resolution of 0.25 mm. OptCT dose maps extracted from normoxic NIPAM polymer gels irradiated with (a) a rectangular 3×3 cm

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Keywords: Computed tomography; Data acquisition; Dosimetry; Gels; Image scanners; Laser beam effects; Medical image noise; Optical polymers; Polymers; Radiation therapy

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