Open AccessSimultaneous measurement of In vivo and transit mid-plane doses with ionization chambers in gynecological malignancy patients undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy
Author(s) -
Suman Kumar Putha,
C. R. Srinivas,
BM Vadhiraja,
Sourjya Banerjee,
R Shreyas,
PU Prakash Saxena,
R Ravichandran,
Dilson Lobo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/jmp.jmp_3_20
Subject(s) - isocenter , medicine , nuclear medicine , ionization chamber , radiation therapy , in vivo , radiation treatment planning , radiology , ionization , physics , ion , microbiology and biotechnology , quantum mechanics , biology
The aim of this study is to estimate delivered radiation doses inside planning tumor volume (PTV) using the in vivo (mid-plane dose) measurement and transit measurement methods in gynecological malignancy patients undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) using calibrated ionization chambers.