Plastic scintillator dosimetry in radiology applications
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Oliveira, Carmen H.; Rego, Florbela; Peralta, Luis; Abreu, Maria C.
- Source
- 2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. :1612-1615 Oct, 2011
- Subject
- Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Silicon
Filtration
- Language
- ISSN
- 1082-3654
Plastics have attractive characteristics that can be exploit in dosimetry. Nevertheless their application with low-energy photon beam is still limited. We aim to a better understanding of their capabilities at the radiology regime. A study of the characteristics of a polystyrene scintillator dosimeter, coupled to a WLS fiber is made in this work. The energy dependence for this detector is extracted for photon beams between 20 and 100 kVp and additional filtrations of 0.5, 1 and 4 mm of Al.