Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

Experimental dosimetry in brachytherapy WHY…?

“theory is an interpolation of experiment” (J.H. Hubbell in: X-Ray Spectrom. 28(4), 215–223, 1999)

Experimental dosimetry is needed for: • establishing source reference dose rate distributions (for clinical TG43-based TP) • commissioning and QA testing of TPS (planned dose is accurate) • dose verification in phantom or “in-vivo” (planned dose is accurately delivered)