A Comparative Simulated Study of Dosimetric Behaviors for Tissue-equivalent Materials

Abstract

Quality assurance and radiation protection are a very important factor in radiotherapy techniques. If in reference dosimetry (performed in primary and secondary standard laboratories) almost exclusively water phantoms are used, in relative dosimetry (in the non-reference conditions of the medical unit) phantoms of tissue-equivalent materials are used. In this paper we present a comparative simulated study for dosimetric behaviors of different tissue-equivalent materials.