The Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) is a novel isocentric irradiation system that enables state-of-the-art image-guided radiotherapy research to be performed with animal models. This paper reports the results obtained from investigations assessing the radiation dose delivered by the SARRP to different anatomical target volumes in mice. Surgically implanted metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET) dosimeters were employed for the dose assessment. The results reveal differences between the calculated and measured dose of −3.5 to 0.5%, −5.2 to −0.7%, −3.9 to 0.5%, −5.9 to 2.5%, −5.5 to 0.5%, and −4.3 to 0% for the left kidney, liver, pancreas, prostate, left lung, and brain, respectively. Overall, the findings show less than 6% difference between the delivered and calculated dose, without tissue heterogeneity corrections. These results provide a useful assessment of the need for tissue heterogeneity corrections in SARRP dose calculations for clinically relevant tumor model sites.
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30 September 2011
MOSFET Assessment of Radiation Dose Delivered to Mice Using the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP)
Wilfred Ngwa,
Houari Korideck,
Lee M. Chin,
G. Mike Makrigiorgos,
Ross I. Berbeco
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Radiation Research
Vol. 176 • No. 6
December 2011
Vol. 176 • No. 6
December 2011