Open AccessClinical implementation of brass mesh bolus for chest wall postmastectomy radiotherapy and film dosimetry for surface dose estimates
Author(s) -
Dilson Lobo,
Sourjya Banerjee,
PU Prakash Saxena,
R Ravichandran,
C. R. Srinivas,
Suman Kumar Putha,
Dinesh Pai Kasturi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_1034_17
Subject(s) - bolus (digestion) , imaging phantom , dosimetry , brass , nuclear medicine , materials science , irradiation , medicine , radiation therapy , biomedical engineering , radiology , surgery , copper , physics , nuclear physics , metallurgy
This study presents the dosimetric data taken with radiochromic EBT3 film with brass mesh bolus using solid water and semi-breast phantoms, and its clinical implementation to analyze the surface dose estimates to the chest wall in postmastectomy radiotherapy (PMRT) patients.