Technical Note: A novel dosimeter improves total skin electron therapy surface dosimetry workflow.

CONCLUSION: Scintillators have been shown to report dose nearly twice as fast as OSLDs with substantially less manual work and reduced chances of human error. Scintillator dose measurements are automatically saved to an electronic patient file and images contain a permanent record of the dose delivered during treatment.
PMID: 32306551 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics - April 18, 2020 Category: Physics Authors: Tendler II, Bruza P, Jermyn M, Soter J, Sharp G, Williams B, Jarvis LA, Pogue B, Gladstone DJ Tags: J Appl Clin Med Phys Source Type: research