Caractérisation du détecteur à fibre scintillante plastique commercial et étude sur la réduction de dose aux appareils cardiaques implantables par blindage de plomb

Le récent développement de la méthode de discrimination spectrale pour la calibration des dosimètres à fibres scintillantes plastiques (PSD) a conduit au développement du premier dosimètre commercial de ce type, soit l’Exradin W1 (STANDARD IMAGING INC., Middleton, WI, U.S.). Comme tout nouveau dosimètre, celui-ci se devait d’être caractérisé afin d’évaluer sa fiabilité en conditions standards d’irradiation. Le but premier du projet était d’effectuer cette validation. Les résultats obtenus ont démontré que le dosimètre à scintillation était un excellent candidat pour réaliser des mesures de dose hors-champ telles que rencontrées lors de l’évaluation de la réduction de dose aux appareils cardiaques implantables (ACI) par blindage. Les mesures effectuées avec l’Exradin W1 ont démontré une importante réduction de dose autant pour les simples champs antéro-postérieurs (de 40 % à 80 % de réduction de dose) que pour les traitements cliniques complexes (entre 5 % et 45 % de réduction de dose).The recent development of the spectral method for correction of the Cˇ erenkov light in plastic scintillation detectors (PSD) have led to the first commercial dosimeter of this type, the Exradin W1 (STANDARD IMAGING INC., Middleton, WI, U.S.). As any new commercial dosimeter, it had to be characterized and validated in different situations of radiation. The first purpose of this project was to perform this validation. The results of characterization have shown that PSD is an efficient dosimeter to make out-of-field doses measurements as required in the evaluation of the feasibility of using a lead sheet to reduce dose to Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices, CIED. Measurements performed with PSD shown an important reduction of doses by the shielding for square anterior-posterior field (40 % to 80 %) and also for complex clinical treatments (5 % to 45 %)

Numerical modeling of air-vented parallel plate ionization chambers for ultra-high dose rate applications

Purpose: air-vented ionization chambers have been the secondary standard for radiation dosimetry since the origins of radiation metrology. However, the feasibility of their use in ultra-high dose rate pulsed beams has been a matter of discussion, as large losses are caused by ion recombinations and no suitable theoretical model is available for their correction. The theories developed by Boag and his contemporaries since the 1950s, which have provided the standard ion recombination correction factor in clinical dosimetry, do not provide an accurate description when used under the limit conditions of ultra-high dose rates (UHDRs). Moreover, the high-ion recombination effects of ionization chambers under extreme dose-rate applications are an obstacle to the development of adequate dosimetry standardsThis work has received funding from the EMPIR programme project 18HLT04 UHDpulse co-financed by the Participating States and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmeS

Neuropsychological study in 19 French patients with White‐Sutton syndrome and POGZ mutations

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