Characterization of scintillating materials in use for brachytherapy fiber based dosimeters
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- 1. Universit`a degli Studi dell'Insubria
- 2. Brussels Photonics (B-PHOT), Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 3. Fibre Sensors Research Centre, University of Limerick
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Abstract:
This paper reports the characterization of two scintillating materials in powder form, Gadox and YVO embedded in a light-activated resin, used in a probe developed for oncological brachytherapy in-vivo dosimetry. The materials were characterized in terms of internal absorption, scintillation decay time, and light yield. The measurement of the optical characteristics highlighted a significant internal absorption at the scintillation light wavelength, with values of 6.5 dB/mm for Gadox and 14.1 dB/mm for YVO. Measurements of the characteristics scintillation time and of the light yield were performed with a novel method based on single photon counting, profiting from the long decay time of the materials under study. Measurements have been complemented by a two-step simulation with Geant4 to study the energy deposition followed by a ZEMAX OpticStudio® ray tracing to estimate the light collection efficiency. The decay time for scintillating materials were measured to be τGadox = (458 ± 3 ± 3) μs and τYVO = (451 ± 8 ± 3) μs and the estimated values of the light yield are (7.1 ± 0.5) × 10⁴ photon/MeV for Gadox and (4.8 ± 0.5) × 10⁴ photon/MeV for YVO.
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- Journal article: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.167083 (DOI)