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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on April 27, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 120(1-4):74-77; doi:10.1093/rpd/nci552
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A TL-based anthropomorphic benchmark for verifying 3-D dose distributions from external electron beams calculated by radiotherapy treatment planning systems

M. P. R. Waligórski1,2,*, R. Baranczyk1, S. Hyödynmaa3, J. Eskola3, J. Lesiak1, B. Rozwadowska-Bogusz1 and A. Kolodziejczyk1

1 Centre of Oncology, Kraków Division, Garncarska 11, PL 31-115 Kraków, Poland
2 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, PL 31-342 Kraków, Poland
3 Department of Oncology, Tampere University Hospital, P.O. Box 2000, FIN-33521, Tampere, Finland

* Corresponding author: z5waligo{at}cyf-kr.edu.pl

Initial results are reported of a Polish–Finnish project to verify electron dose distributions calculated by treatment planning systems (TPSs), CadPlan v.6.3.2 and Theraplan v.3.5, which use different electron beam dose distribution algorithms. Treatment of gross tumour volumes representing lung and parotid cancer was simulated in an Alderson anthropomorphic phantom with thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs) (Li2B4O7:Mn,Si) placed at selected measurement points inside its volume. The observed discrepancy between relative values of dose calculated and measured by TLDs at each of the measurement points and those calculated by the different TPSs at the same points is discussed.


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