<p>A method to establish the boundaries of the sensitive volume for a chosen detector to within 50µm (as specified by Elekta Instuments AB) was investigated and is presented in this project. The detector studied was fixed to a positioning system with possibility to move with sub micrometer increments, and scanned in a narrow photon field. The detectors used for the experiment were silicon diodes and a pair of diamond detectors. The silicon diodes showed great promise for future study; two radiotherapy silicon diodes and one electrical component silicon diode were used. The electrical component silicon diode produced a surprisingly sharp dose profile compared with the medical silicon diodes. The diamond detectors gave no stable results at all.</p><p>As a radiation source 60Co proved most feasible, but a diagnostic x-ray source was also tested as well as a 99mTc source. These radiation sources were also examined with a modified Penelope code, i.e. Monte Carlo simulations. What became very obvious with the Monte Carlo simulations was the importance of the line up, which was never satisfactory.</p><p>To limit the sensitive volume of these detectors to within the desired boundaries showed great difficulty and was not achieved in this project.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:su-8000 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Grafström, Jonas |
| Publisher | Stockholm University, Medical Radiation Physics (together with KI) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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