Abstract：
:A detailed Monte Carlo study of the PTW-diamond solid state detector response in megavoltage photon beams (60Co gamma rays to 25 MV x rays) has been performed with the EGS4 Monte Carlo Code. The sensitive volume of the diamond detector is a disk of diameter 4.4 mm and thickness 0.40 mm. The phantom material was water and the irradiation depth was usually 3 cm but additional simulations were performed at six other depths for the 10 and 25 MV x rays. Results show that the PTW-diamond detector response per unit of absorbed dose is constant within 1% for photon beam energies ranging from 60Co gamma rays to 25 MV x rays. Accurate depth dose curves for 10 and 25 MV x-ray beams may be measured with the diamond detector since the response per unit of absorbed dose at different depths in a water phantom is also constant to within 1% for depths ranging from 3 to 25 cm and field sizes ranging from 2.5 cm by 2.5 cm to 10 cm by 10 cm. An examination of the difference between the PTW-diamond detector and the wall-less form of the detector (e.g., TLDs) revealed that there is no significant difference in their response in megavoltage photon beams. This implies that the encapsulation of the diamond dosimeter causes less than a 1.3% change in its response for these megavoltage photon beams. Analysis of the total dose deposited in the sensitive volume of the detector shows that the PTW-diamond detector behaves as an intermediate-sized cavity, not a simple Bragg-Gray cavity, since the dose contribution from photon interactions within the cavity (alpha(c)) to the total cavity dose is 8% for 25 MV x rays and increases to 42% for 60Co gamma rays.
journal_name
Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Mobit PN,Sandison GAdoi
10.1118/1.598771subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-11-01 00:00:00pages
2503-7issue
11eissn
0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
26pub_type
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