• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.455-461
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• 1993

Experimental measurements of dose characteristics with pentagonal applicator at nominal energy of 4, 6, 9, 12 and 15 MeV electron beam were performed for intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) in ML-15MDX linear accelerator. This paper presents the percent depth dose, surface dose, beam flatness and output factors of using the IORT applicator in different electron beam energy. The output factor showed as a 24 percent higher in IORT applicator than that of reference $10{\times}10cm^2$ applicator. The surface dose of using the IORT applicator showed 7.7 and 2.7 percent higher than that of reference field in 4 and 15 MeV electron beam, respectively. In our experiments, the variation of percent depth dose was very small but the output factor and flatnees at 0.5 cm depth have showed a large value in IORT applicator.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2020

The present study was conducted to determine the effects of electron beam irradiation on the postharvest quality of cut flowers. Cut flowers were irradiated with electron beam at 100, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1,000, and 2,000 Gy with a 10 MeV linear electron beam accelerator to evaluate their irradiation tolerance. Postharvest quality was determined by monitoring fresh weight loss, flower longevity, flower diameter, flowering rate, visual quality of flowers and leaves, and chlorophyll content. Cut flowers showed a radiation-induced damage with increasing the irradiation dose. Flower longevity and fresh weight of cut flowers decreased when the irradiation dose was increased. Flower bud opening was also inhibited in a dose-dependent manner. The effective irradiation doses for 10% reduction of postharvest quality (ED₁₀) values were 144.4, 451.6, and 841.2 Gy in the 'Medusa' lily, 'Montezuma' carnation, and 'Rosina White' eustoma, respectively. Although tolerance of cut flowers to electron beam irradiation vary according to species, cultivars, or maturity stage conditions, it is conceivable that 'Montezuma' carnation and 'Rosina White' eustoma could be tolerated and maintained overall postharvest quality up to 400 Gy, the generic irradiation dose approved by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) for postharvest phytosanitary treatments.

• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.89-93
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• 1994

Authors have measured virtual source distance of electron beam from CL/1800 medical linear accelerator, with newly designed method. Beam scanning was performed with the direction of beam axis in the air. Compared results between this study and well established in phantom measurement shows good agreement with in experimental error. And we have found that build-up cap plays very important role in air measurement because of charge build up. The method of in-air measurement of virtual source distance is very easy to set-up and generate accurate results.

• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.41-54
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• 1996

The secondary electrons developed by interaction between primary beam and a tray mounted for blocks in Megavoltage irradiation result in excess soft radiation dose to the surface layer. To reduce this electron contamination, electron filters have been used to be attached under a tray. Various filters with Cu and Al plates in six different thickness and Cu/Al combined plates in 3 different thickness were tested to measure the reduction rate of secondary electron contamination to the surface layer. The measurement to find optimal filter was performed on 6MV linear accelerator in $10 cm{\times}10 cm$ field size and fixed 78.5cm source to measurement points distance from surface to maximum build up point in 2mm intervals. The result was analyzed as the ratio of measured doses with using filters, to standard doses of measured open beam. The result of this study was fellowing : 1. The contaminated low energy radiation were mainly produced by blocking tray. 2. The surface absorbed dose was slowly increased by increasing irradiation field size but rapidly increased at field size above $15cm{\times}15cm$. 3. Al plate upto 2.5mm thickness used as a filter was found to be inadequate due to the failure of reduction of the surface absorbed dose below doses of the under surface upto the maximal build up. Cu 0.5mm plate and Cu 0.28mm/A1 1.5mm compound plate were found to be optimal filters. 4. By using these 2 filters, the absorbed dose to the surface were effectively reduced $5.5\%$ in field size $4cm{\times}4cm,\;11.3\%$ in field size $10cm{\times}10cm,\;22.3\%$ in field size $25cm{\times}25cm$. 5. In field size $10cm{\times}10cm$, the absorbed dose to the surface of irradiation was reduced by setting TSD 20cm at least,. but effective and enough dose reduction could be achieved by setting TSD 30cm as 2 optimal filters used. 6. More surface dose absorbed at TSD less than 7.4cm with a tray and filters together indicated that soft radiation was also developed by filters. 7. The variation of PDD by the different size of irradiation field was minimal as 2 optimal filters used. There was also not different in variation of PDD according to using any of two different filters. 8. PDD was not effected either by various TSD or by using the different filter among two.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.152-158
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• 2009

선형 가속기의 Total Skin Electron Beam Therapy (TSEBT)는 유용하게 사용 되어왔으며, 2에서 9 MeV 에너지 영역의 전자는 mycosis fungoides와 cutaneous lymphomas와 같은 신체의 큰 부분을 덮는 표면상의 병변 치료에 사용 되어져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 Stanford technique로 환자를 치료 하였으며, Stanford technique는 선형 가속기로 전자 빔을 수평 방향으로 조사하여 서 있는 환자의 주위에 $60^{\circ}$로 위치한 6개의 조사면(anterior, posterior, 그리고 4개의 obliques)으로 치료하는 TSEBT의 표준이 되는 방법이다. 각 조사면은 수평으로 하고 적절한 각도에 점을 맞춘 두 개 성분의 빔으로 이루어져있다. 치료시간을 짧게 하기 위해 환자는 하루에 세 개의 이중 조사면으로 치료한다. 첫째 날에는 anterior로 하나의 이중 조사면, posterior에서 두 개의 이중 조사면 그리고 그 다음날에 posterior에서 하나의 이중 조사면 그리고 anterior 경사에서 두 개의 이중 조사면으로 치료한다. 따라서 6개의 이중 조사면의 완전한 주기는 2일로 완성된다. 환자를 치료하기 전 먼저 선량 측정을 하기 위해 원통형 아크릴 팬텀을 제작하여 그 사이 선량계 필름을 삽입하고 환자가 치료 받는 6개 조사면 방향으로 조사를 한 후 선량 분포를 알아보았다. 그런 후 Rando 팬텀을 사용하여 열형광선량계(thermoluminescent dosimetry : TLD)를 앞 가슴, 좌우 옆구리, 등에 부착한 후 6개 조사면 방향으로 방사선을 조사한 후 선량을 측정 하였다.

• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 1985

High energy electron beams took effect for tumor radio-therapy, however, had a lot of problems in clinical application because of various conversion factors and complication of physical reactions. Therefore, we had experimentally studied the important properties of high energy electron beams from the linear accelerator, LMR-13, installed in Yonsei Cancer Center. The results of experimental studies on the problems in the 8, 10, 12 Mev electron beam therapy were reported as following. 1. On the measurements of the outputs and absorbed does, the ionization type dosimeters that had calibrated by $^{90}Sr$ standard source were suitable as under $3\%$ errors for high energy electrons to measure, but measuring doses in small field sizes and the regions of rapid fall off dose with ionization chambers were difficult. 2. The electron energy were measured precisely with energy spectrometer consisted of magnet analyzer and tele-control detector and the practical electron energy was calculated under $5\%$ errors by maximum range of high energy electron beam in the water. 3. The correcting factors of perturbated dose distributions owing to radiation field, energy and material of the treatment cone were checked and described systematically and variation of dose distributions due to inhomogeneous tissues and sloping skin surfaces were completely compensated. 4. The electron beams, using the scatters; i.e., gold, tin, copper, lead, aluminium foils, were adequately diffused and minimizing the bremsstrahlung X-ray induced by the electron energy, irradiation field size and material of scatterers, respectively. 5. Inproving of the dose distribution from the methods of pendulum, slit, grid and focusing irradiations, the therapeutic capacity with limited electron energy could be extended.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.6-22
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• 1978

High energy electron beams took effect for tumor radio-therapy, however, had a lot of problems in clinical application because of various conversion factors and complication of physical reactions. Therefor, we had experimentally studied the important properties of high energy electron beams from the linear accelerator, LMR-13, installed in Yonsei Cancer Center. The results of experimental studies on the problems in the 8, 10, 12 Mev electron beam therapy were reported as following. 1. On the measurements of the outputs and absorbed doses, the ionization type dosimeters that had calibrated by $^{90}Sr$ standard source were suitable as under 3% errors for high energy electrons to measure, but measuring doses in small field sizes and the regions of rapid fall off dose with ionization chambers were difficult. 2. The electron energy were measured precisely with energy spectrometer consisted of magnet analyzer and tele-control detector and the practical electron energy was calculated under 5% errors by maximum range of high energy electron beam in the water. 3. The correcting factors of perturbated dose distributions owing to radiation field, energy and material of the treatment cone were checked and described systematically and variation of dose distributions due to inhomogeneous tissues and sloping skin surfaces were completely compensated. 4. The electron beams, using the scatterers; ie., gold, tin, copper, lead, aluminium foils, were adequately diffused and minimizing the bremsstrahlung X-ray induced by the electron energy, irradiation field size and material of scatterers, respectively. 5. Inproving of the dose distribution from the methods of pendulum, slit, grid and focusing irradiations, the therapeutic capacity with limited electron energy could be extended.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.145-152
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• 2020

Purpose: In ionization-chamber dosimetry for high-dose-rate electron beams-above 20 mGy/pulse-the ion-recombination correction methods recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) are not appropriate, because they overestimate the correction factor. In this study, we suggest a practical ion-recombination correction method, based on Boag's improved model, and apply it to reference dosimetry for electron beams of about 100 mGy/pulse generated from an electron linear accelerator (LINAC). Methods: This study employed a theoretical model of the ion-collection efficiency developed by Boag and physical parameters used by Laitano et al. We recalculated the ion-recombination correction factors using two-voltage analysis and obtained an empirical fitting formula to represent the results. Next, we compared the calculated correction factors with published results for the same calculation conditions. Additionally, we performed dosimetry for electron beams from a 6 MeV electron LINAC using an Advanced Markus^® ionization chamber to determine the reference dose in water at the source-to-surface distance (SSD)=100 cm, using the correction factors obtained in this study. Results: The values of the correction factors obtained in this work are in good agreement with the published data. The measured dose-per-pulse for electron beams at the depth of maximum dose for SSD=100 cm was 115 mGy/pulse, with a standard uncertainty of 2.4%. In contrast, the k_s values determined using the IAEA and AAPM methods are, respectively, 8.9% and 8.2% higher than our results. Conclusions: The new method based on Boag's improved model provides a practical method of determining the ion-recombination correction factors for high dose-per-pulse radiation beams up to about 120 mGy/pulse. This method can be applied to electron beams with even higher dose-per-pulse, subject to independent verification.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.87-99
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• 1994

목적 : 선형가속기 ML-15MDX의 전자선에너지 대한 출력선량계수가 Applicator크기에 따라 결정되도록 하며 각 Applicator에서 정방형조사면과 직사각형조사변에 대한 출력선량계수는 측정값으로 부터 다항식을 이용하여 결정되었다. 방법 : 실험에서, 출력선량의 측정은 전자선에너지 4, 6, 9, l2MEV대해 2$\times$2$cm^2$에서 20$\times$20$cm^2$까지 이루어졌다. 출력선량계수는 각 아프리케이터의 조사면중심선속의 최대선량에 대한 임의 조사면의 최대선량의 비로 얻어졌고 각 아프리케이터의 출력선량계수는 기준 아프리케이터(10$\times$10$cm^2$)와 비교되었다. 전자선조사면의 차폐는 모든 실험에너지 영역에서 균등하게 10mm 두께의 Lipowitz(밀도 9.4g/$cm^2$)를 사용하였으며, 조사면크기 및 모양 결정이 용이하도록 고안하여 사용되었다. 임의의 전자선조사면에 대한 출력선량계수는 조사면의 한변을 고정한 직사각형의 출력선량 계수를 이용한 1-Dimension방법에 의한 다항식으로 부터 구하였다. 결과 : 직사각형의 전자선조사면에 대한 출력선량계수는 4$\times$4$cm^2$에서 20$\times$20$cm^2$의 범위에서는 2%이내의 불확실성을 보였으며, 이들 보다 작은 직사각형조사면에서는 약 3%의 오차를 보였다. 결론 : 전자선에너지의 정사각형 및 직사각형조사변에 대한 출력선량계수가 실험자료를 이용한 다항식으로 부터 실제값에 매우 근사한 예상값을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.157-163
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• 1987

It is known that fixed source to skin distance (SSD) cannot be used when the treatment field is sloped or larger than the size of second collimator in electron beam irradiation and inverse square law using effective ssd should be adopted. Effective SSDs were measured in different field sizes in each 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18MeV electron energy by suing NELAC 1018D linear accelerator of Kosin Medical Center. We found important parmeters of effective SSD. 1. Minimum effective SSD was 58.8cm in small field size of $6\pm6cm$ and maximum effective SSD was 94.9cm in large field size of $25\pm25cm$, with 6MeV energy. It's difference was 36.1cm. The dose rate at measuring point was quite different even with a small difference of SSD in small field $(6\times6cm)$ and low energy (6 MeV). 2. Effective SSD increased with field size in same electron energy. 3. Effective SSDs gradually increased with the electron energies and reached maximum at 12 or 15 MeV electron energy and decreased again at 18MeV electron energy in each identical field size. And so the effective SSD should be measured in each energy and field size for practical radiotherapy.