MEASUREMENT OF HALF-VALUE LAYER IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS USING LUMINESCENCE OF POLYETHERSULFONE RESIN BY X-RAY IRRADIATION.

Radiat Prot Dosimetry

Department of Integrated Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, 1-1-20 Daikominami, Higashi-ku, Nagoya 461-8673, Japan.

Published: November 2021

In this study, a method for estimating the half-value layer (HVL) and effective energy (Eeff) by imaging the luminescence from a polyethersulfone (PES) resin with rotating irradiation of X-rays in a computed tomography scanner was developed. The luminescence of the PES resin was imaged using a charge-coupled device camera. The PES-HVL was determined from the luminance attenuation profile corresponding to the X-ray attenuation within the resin. The PES-HVLs for tube potentials of 80-135 kVp were converted into Eeff values and were compared to those of a conventional lead-covered case method. The Eeff obtained using the proposed luminescence imaging method agreed within ~3.9% of that obtained using the conventional method. Moreover, dose simulations based on the X-ray spectrum calculated from the HVLs were performed using a poly(methyl methacrylate) phantom with a diameter of 16 cm. The simulated doses based on the luminescence imaging method agreed with the in-phantom dosimetry within ~9%.

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