A new approach in the design of electronic portal imaging devices for portal dosimetry in radiotherapy.

A CCD-based EPID using new crystal-assembly X-ray (CAX) converters is investigated for radiotherapy dosimetry. The proposed EPID design consists in replacing the common phosphor X-ray converters of current CCD-based EPIDs with high-stopping-power CAX converters. A Test Imaging Device (TID), consisting of a 30-mm-thick CAX converter made of Bismuth Germanate (BGO), coupled to a highly sensitive CCD camera, was used to evaluate the accessible imaging and dosimetric performance of the proposed design.