The introductory part of the diploma thesis primarily focuses on the history of radiotherapy, i.e. what it emerged from and how it developed, as it is one of the most important fields in medicine, especially because thousands of people are irradiated every day due to different tumour and non-tumour diseases. Another reason why ionizing radiation is described is the fact that it is a necessary part of tumour disease irradiation. Ionizing radiation is also connected with radiation protection. This section presents a historical overview of radiation protection, as well as principles and quantities of this field. Furthermore, it focuses on Czech acts, decrees, and government regulations which define various measures governing this issue. Radiation protection forms the basis of patient, workplace, and personnel monitoring. All this is connected with the measurement and evaluation of received personal doses. This brings the thesis to the field of dosimetry, therefore various dosimeters used in practice are described. The aim of this diploma thesis is the measurement of patients? personal doses in head and neck irradiation using the electronic personal dosimeter at the radiotherapy centre of Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s. The thesis is based on the question of whether irradiation doses that patients with head and neck tumours receive outside the primary radiation beam are negligible. The theoretical part of the thesis uses all available resources from both foreign and Czech literature. The practical part is based on numerical statistics, i.e. a quantitative method. The research was carried out at the radiotherapy centre of Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s. Irradiation of patients with head and neck tumours was performed on a linear accelerator. Each patient had a mask to which an electronic personal dosimeter was attached during irradiation. Using this dosimeter, it was possible to measure doses received outside the central radiation beam. The measured values were then used to carry out assessment using formulas. Patients who undergo cancer treatment receive relatively high doses of radiation, so my main goal was to measure personal dose equivalents at the reference point. When comparing the percentage of the number of examinations with the web portal Epidemiology of Malignant Tumours in the Czech Republic, it was found that irradiation of the neck is more frequent than irradiation of the head. The total values of personal dose equivalents are relatively high in each patient, but because it is medical treatment, these values are not subject to radiation exposure limits. The comparison of the irradiated areas shows that irradiation of the neck has small values of personal dose equivalents to 1Gy compared to irradiation of the head.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:154664 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | CHYLÍKOVÁ, Renáta |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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