Dosimetry · Literature Radar
TG-191 in-vivo dosimetry programmes — IMRT/VMAT routine practice, TBI / TSET, special techniques. Curated daily from Europe PMC (PubMed + PMC + preprints) and OpenAlex — free-full-text link on each open-access paper.
Marino C, Bonanno E, Borzì GR, Cavalli N et al.
PurposePrevious studies have suggested that direct interaction between medical physicists and patients may improve patient understanding of radiation therapy and reduce treatment-related anxiety. Howe…
Edouard M, Martin A, Chea M, Jenny C et al.
PurposeThis study investigates phantom-based methods for fetal radiation exposure assessment in photon external beam radiotherapy for a pregnant patient, using representative uterine locations as a co…
Zhang Z, Lu L, Videtic GMM, Sheen C et al.
BackgroundTotal skin electron therapy (TSET) is a standard treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Due to the complex patient positioning and irregular body contours, robust in-vivo dosimetry (IVD) i…
Xinyu Hu, Yan Li, Weiguang Li, Yin Yuying et al.
OBJECTIVE: In-beam positron emission tomography (PET) provides a promising strategy for dose monitoring in carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT), but accurate dose prediction remains difficult due to the com…
Luiz Flávio Kalil Telles, L. M. Maria, Divanízia N. Souza, Luiz Antonio Pereira dos et al.
One type of dosimeter used in radiotherapy is the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), which is widely employed in in vivo dosimetry. This study investigated the response of a c…
Haughey A, Biggar R, Caines R, Moloney S et al.
ObjectivesElectronic portal imaging devices (EPID) are well suited to radiotherapy in-vivo dosimetry (IVD), but limited guidance remains a barrier to routine clinical use. This SunCHECK (Sun Nuclear C…
Deng Y, Wang X, Chen R.
BackgroundInterfractional anatomical variations during breast cancer radiotherapy can significantly deviate the delivered dose from the treatment plan. Standard image guidance via Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) …
Mikasa S, Okamoto H, Miura Y, Watanabe Y et al.
We aimed to establish and evaluate a method for measuring the cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) dose of radiotherapy patients using radiophotoluminescence glass dosimeters (RPLDs). Thirty…
Greco F, Galetto M, Vaccaro M, De Spirito M et al.
Background and purposeVolumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) has enabled highly conformal Total Body Irradiation (TBI), improving dose homogeneity and sparing of organs-of-interest. However, the incr…
Huet C, Belchior A, Bassinet C, Sa AC et al.
PurposeThis study aimed to identify the methods currently used to evaluate fetal dose in pregnant patients undergoing radiotherapy, the strategies implemented to optimize fetal exposure, and the fetal…
Park YI, Kim H, Kim SY, Son J et al.
Objective.Accurate surface dosimetry is recommended for detecting treatment error and managing skin toxicity. However, measurements using detectors such as optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters…
Komakech I, Okello D, Kavuma A, Wygoda A.
BackgroundRadiotherapy aims to deliver a uniform dose within ± 5.0% of the prescription, while minimizing toxicity. Because treatment quality directly influences patient's treatment outcomes, error de…
Razinskas G, Schindhelm R, Richter A, Kraft J et al.
Background and purposeElectronic portal imaging device (EPID)-based in-vivo dosimetry (IVD) is widely used to verify radiotherapy dose delivery and detect deviations from anatomical changes, setup unc…
Iliaskou C, Gainey M, Kollefrath M, Kuhn S et al.
PurposeThe aim of this study is to perform an experimental evaluation of an imaging-based intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (IOERT) and in vivo dose verification workflow for pancreatic cancer…
Yang Y, Lim SB, Das I, Park J et al.
BackgroundAccurate in vivo dosimetry is crucial for dose monitoring of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) and for dose verification for special procedures such as total body irradiation (TB…
Singh S, Dipesh, Sen S, Singh AK et al.
To perform a large-scale clinical evaluation of OSLD-based in-vivo dosimetry for helical TomoTherapy-based total body irradiation, focusing on patient thickness, anatomical region, junction stability,…
Martin A, Thibouw D, Delcoudert L, Aubignac L et al.
BackgroundRadiotherapy during pregnancy is a rare and ethically complex requiring careful management of fetal exposure. Although peripheral doses from head and neck radiotherapy are typically low, fet…
Vasyltsiv R, Matous AL, Mulenga N, Clark MA et al.
BackgroundIn vivo dosimetry is essential for treatment verification in modern radiotherapy, but existing techniques have significant limitations in their logistics of use related to time, accuracy of …
Dai G, Gao D, Xiao Q, Song Y et al.
BackgroundElectronic portal imaging device (EPID)-based in vivo dosimetry (IVD) has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Nevertheless, the limited detection area of conventional EPID syste…
Cuneo KC, Zhang W, Litzenberg D, Huang Y et al.
PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using ionizing radiation acoustic imaging (iRAI) to map the delivered dose in patients receiving radiation therapy (RT) with various treatment te…
Bjegovic K, Ren L, Chen Y, Schüler E et al.
Radiation therapy is a cornerstone of cancer management, utilized in over half of all cancer treatments. Treatment precision is critical for ensuring the efficacy of radiation therapy. Current radioth…
Fodor E, Varga Z, Kelemen G, Oláh J et al.
IntroductionDental restorations using high-density materials can cause inaccuracies in target and organ-at-risk (OAR) delineation and dose calculations during radiotherapy. These materials, such as am…
Yang D, Fan J, Wenliang Y, Wang J et al.
Background and purposeElectronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) have been used as an in vivo dosimetry method to identify treatment discrepancies by comparing planned and predicted 3D dose. The purpos…
Alves LDB, Menezes ACDS, Marin AV, Viegas CCB et al.
ObjectivesTo evaluate the radiation dose in the oral cavity structures (through in vivo dosimetry and treatment planning system) of head and neck cancer patients; and secondarily, evaluate sialometry …
Al-Murshedi G, Radzi YM, Rizan NNN, Abdul Rahman A.
ObjectivesTo evaluate the effectiveness of in-vivo dosimetry (IVD) utilizing an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) in conjunction with EPIgray® software (DOSIsoft, Cachan, France) for assessing t…
Vasyltsiv R, Harms J, Clark M, Gladstone DJ et al.
BackgroundUltrahigh dose rate (UHDR) proton therapy has shown promise in normal tissue sparing by enhancing the therapeutic ratio through a method termed the FLASH effect. As in all radiotherapy, accu…
Iliaskou C, Gainey M, Thomann B, Kollefrath M et al.
PurposeThis study presents an in-house developed set-up enabling the placement of multiple TLDs over the target region, for in vivo dosimetry in intraoperative electron beam radiotherapy (IOERT).Metho…
Davis H, Siebers JV, Wijesooriya K, Mistro M.
In radiation oncology, inter-fractional dosimetry using optically stimulated luminescent detectors (OSLDs) ensures accurate plan delivery and patient safety. RadPro International GmbH's myOLSchip syst…
Gonçalves Jorge P, Geyer R, Kinj R, Schiappacasse L et al.
BackgroundThe FLASH effect, induced by ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) irradiations, offers the potential to spare normal tissue while effectively treating tumors. It is important to achieve precise and a…
Mlawa OM, Ngaile JE, Chaurasia PP, Amasi AI.
PurposeHigh-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy delivers high radiation doses to tumors while minimizing exposure to surrounding normal cells. However, inappropriate administration can lead to radia…
Al Kharusi O, Al Mamari R, Al Hosni B, Al Amri I et al.
The precision of radiation therapy treatment depends on several calibration and quality assurance processes. In-vivo dosimetry (IVD) is used in external beam radiotherapy to evaluate the delivered ver…
Kowalski JP, Erickson BG, Wu Q, Li X et al.
This article investigates the performance of a commercial BeO optically stimulated luminescent (OSL) dosimetry system (myOSLchip, RadPro GmbH International, Remscheid, Germany) through the application…
Brás M, Freitas H, Gonçalves P, Seco J.
BackgroundIn proton radiotherapy, the steep dose deposition profile near the end of the proton's track, the Bragg peak, ensures a more conformed deposition of dose to the tumor region when compared wi…
Negrete-Hernandez IM, Lozano IB, Roman-Lopez J, Guzman-Castañeda JI.
In recent decades, technological advances have been made in the field of radiotherapy and with it the emergence of new dosimetric systems for their calibration and commissioning, among other uses. Suc…
Esposito M, Baldoni R, Bossuyt E, Bresciani S et al.
Background and purposeWith the availability of commercial electronic portal imaging detector-based in vivo dosimetry (EPID-based IVD) solutions, many radiotherapy departments are adopting this technol…
Lee A, Alkhatib Z, Ibrahim M, McCallum-Hee B et al.
PurposeTotal skin electron therapy (TSET) is a complex radiotherapy technique, posing challenges in commissioning and quality assurance (QA), especially due to significant variability in patient body …
Bjegovic K, Sun L, Pandey P, Grilj V et al.
Objective. The primary goal of this research is to demonstrate the feasibility of radiation-induced acoustic imaging (RAI) as a volumetric dosimetry tool for ultra-high dose rate FLASH electron radiot…
Decker SM, Bruza P, Zhang R, Williams BB et al.
BackgroundWhile careful planning and pre-treatment checks are performed to ensure patient safety during external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), inevitable daily variations mean that in vivo dosimetry …
Abdelmajeed M, Attalla EM, Elshemey WM, Elfiky AA et al.
IntroductionUltra-hypofractionated radiotherapy (UHF-RT) mandates more accuracy in each part of the treatment cycle to maximize cure rates and minimize toxicities. In vivo dosimetry is a direct method…
di Franco F, Rosuel N, Gallin-Martel L, Gallin-Martel ML et al.
Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) is a radiotherapy technique combining spatial fractionation of the dose distribution on a micrometric scale, X-rays in the 50-500 keV range and dose rates up to 16 × …
Sundaramoorthy D, Chandrasekaran A.
ObjectiveThe Six dual-field is the most commonly used treatment technique in total skin electron therapy (TSET). Because of the prolonged treatment period, the patient may experience discomfort, and r…
Dogan N, Mijnheer BJ, Padgett K, Nalichowski A et al.
PurposeElectronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) have been widely utilized for patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) and their use for transit dosimetry applications is emerging. Yet there are no …
Sun L, Gonzalez G, Pandey PK, Wang S et al.
BackgroundRadiation dosimetry is essential for radiation therapy (RT) to ensure that radiation dose is accurately delivered to the tumor. Despite its wide use in clinical intervention, the delivered r…
Matsumoto S, Matsufuji N, Koba Y, Tsuji H.
Background/aimIn vivo dosimetry can prevent dose delivery errors by directly measuring the dose of radiation administered to a patient. However, a method for in vivo dosimetry during carbon ion radiot…
Fiagan YAC, Bossuyt E, Nevens D, Machiels M et al.
Background and purposeHead and neck cancer (HNC) patients experiencing anatomical changes during their radiotherapy (RT) course may benefit from adaptive RT (ART). We investigated the sensitivity of a…
van Reenen CJ, Trauernicht CJ, Bojechko C.
The gamma analysis metric is a commonly used metric for VMAT plan evaluation. The major drawback of this is the lack of correlation between gamma passing rates and DVH values. The novel GDSAmean metri…
Mao SPH, Han-Oh S, Moore J, Huang E et al.
As cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has become the localization method for a majority of cases, the indications for diode-based confirmation of accurate patient set-up and treatment are now limite…
Bossuyt E, Nevens D, Weytjens R, Taieb Mokaddem A et al.
Background and purposeCurrently in-vivo dosimetry (IVD) is primarily used to identify individual patient errors in radiotherapy. This study investigated possible correlations of observed trends in tra…
Huang J, Hu J, Lu H, Liu S et al.
PurposeTo investigate the error detectability limitations of an EPID-based 3D in vivo dosimetry verification system for lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).MethodsThirty errors were intent…
Schade S, Engenhart-Cabillic R, Zink K, Czarnecki D.
PurposeThe aim of this study was to develop an algorithm that corrects the image of an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) of a linear accelerator so that it can be used for dosimetric purposes, s…
Esposito M, Piermattei A, Bresciani S, Orlandini LC et al.
PurposeTo investigate critical aspects and effectiveness of in vivo dosimetry (IVD) tests obtained by an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) in a multicenter and multisystem context.Materials and …
Bossuyt E, Weytjens R, Nevens D, De Vos S et al.
Background and purposeFirst reports on clinical use of commercially automated systems for Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID)-based dosimetry in radiotherapy showed the capability to detect import…
Olaciregui-Ruiz I, Beddar S, Greer P, Jornet N et al.
External beam radiotherapy with photon beams is a highly accurate treatment modality, but requires extensive quality assurance programs to confirm that radiation therapy will be or was administered ap…
Tendler II, Bruza P, Jermyn M, Fleury A et al.
Previous work has shown that capturing optical emission from plastic discs attached directly to the skin can be a viable means to accurately measure surface dose during total skin electron therapy. Th…
Dias AG, Pinto DFS, Borges MF, Pereira MH et al.
In-phantom and in-vivo three dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) skin doses, measured with and without bolus in a female anthropomorphic phantom…
Nailon WH, Welsh D, McDonald K, Burns D et al.
BackgroundIndependent verification of the dose delivered by complex radiotherapy can be performed by electronic portal imaging device (EPID) dosimetry. This paper presents 5-yr EPID in vivo dosimetry …
Lei H, Zhang W, Oraiqat I, Liu Z et al.
PurposeTo study, using phantoms made from biological tissues, the feasibility and practical challenges of monitoring the position of the radiation beam and the deposited dose by x-ray acoustic compute…
Kamomae T, Shimizu H, Nakaya T, Okudaira K et al.
Pretreatment intensity-modulated radiotherapy quality assurance is performed using simple rectangular or cylindrical phantoms; thus, the dosimetric errors caused by complex patient-specific anatomy ar…
MacDougall ND, Graveling M, Hansen VN, Brownsword K et al.
ObjectiveTowards Safer Radiotherapy recommended that radiotherapy (RT) centres should have protocols in place for in vivo dosimetry (IVD) monitoring at the beginning of patient treatment courses (Dona…
Spreeuw H, Rozendaal R, Olaciregui-Ruiz I, González P et al.
PurposeDelivery errors during radiotherapy may lead to medical harm and reduced life expectancy for patients. Such serious incidents can be avoided by performing dose verification online, i.e., while …
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