@inproceedings{ad2d0692d960479eb571703b4f0ef820,
title = "A comparison of clinic based dosimeters based on silica optical fibre and plastic optical fibre for in vivo dosimetry",
abstract = "Four sensors based on silica optical fibre and plastic optical fibre for clinical in-vivo dosimetry have been fabricated and tested on site at Galway Clinic. The initial comparison results have been attained for the four sensors when they have been irradiated with beam energies of 6 MV and 15 MV at different dose rates using a modern clinical linear accelerator (Linac) as the radiation source. According to the experimental test results, the sensors based on silica optical fibre exhibit greater sensitivity to the incident radiation beam than the sensors based on plastic optical fibre when they are exposed to identical irradiation conditions. The output intensity from the sensor based on silica fibre is 5 times higher than the sensor based on plastic optical fibre.",
keywords = "Dosimeter, Optical fibre sensor, Plastic optical fibre, Scintillation material, Silica optical fibre",
author = "Lingxia Chen and Sinead O'Keeffe and Peter Woulfe and Elfed Lewis",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 SPIE.; 25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, OFS 2017 ; Conference date: 24-04-2017 Through 28-04-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1117/12.2265032",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Libo Yuan and Youngjoo Chung and Wei Jin and Byoungho Lee and John Canning and Kentaro Nakamura",
booktitle = "25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors",
}