National Physical Laboratory

Towards EPID Dosimetry

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Published: 30 September 2010

Authors: Julia Snaith, Catharine Clark, David Shipley

Related: Ionising Radiation

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Ensuring that radiotherapy doses are safe and effective by using existing detection equipment in a novel way.

Electronic Portal Imaging Devices (EPID), usually found mounted onto hospital radiotherapy machines, can be used to accurately monitor the dose of radiation given to a patient and so improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy, as well as its safety. This is especially important as treatments become more complex in order to better deal with the 3-dimensional structure of tumours.

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