Three collimators were designed and built with mouse irradiation in mind. They were made to have a shapeable aperture that could deliver strange or complex dose shapes to spots on the animals. Current collimators are either custom-built, expensive, or only provide limited dose shapes. These provide self-customizable collimation at a minimum of cost.
A mouse holder was also devised to reproducibly hold a mouse under the collimator. Construction of the holder and of each collimator is also covered. Each collimator was analyzed for flaws, holes, and penumbral width across various shapes of interest. A Norelco MG300 X-ray generator at the Texas A&M Nuclear Science Center was used in these tests.
The lead collimator had a radial penumbra of 1.2 mm. The clay / lead shot collimator had a radial penumbra of 1.6 mm. The brass collimator had a radial penumbra of 1.75 mm. Vertical and horizontal penumbras are dependent on distance from the center of the beam. All readings are + 0.3 mm according to the resolution of the scanner used in this experiment. Each collimator is useful for different purposes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/149423 |
| Date | 03 October 2013 |
| Creators | Uhlemeyer, James Richard |
| Contributors | Ford, John, Guetersloh, Stephen, Quick, Christopher, Nunez-Perez, Delia |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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