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At a recent meeting, members discussed
ways in which to detect cancer in its early stages so as to save
patient lives. While cancer ranks as the tenth
leading cause of mortality, the medical field strives to detect
cancer in its early stages along with appropriate therapy. Using
radioactive rays is an effective means of helping physicians to
diagnose whether a tumor exists, and is also used in tumor
patient therapy. However, radiation poses a potential harm,
necessitating the importance of controlling dosage levels during
diagnostic radiology and therapy. The
conventional radiological therapeutic cobalt-60 procedure and
the traditional linear acceleator can not adequately control the
radiation beam with respect to the tumor size.
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Some normal cells may subsequently suffer from radiation during use
of the latter to eradicate abnormal cells. Additionally, a normal tissue
absorbs an increasing radiactive dosage given the pervasive use of
radiology treatment. Therefore, physicians and radiologists heavily
emphasize the need to adequately control the dosae from a linear
accelerator. Thermoluminescence dosimeter (TLD) is the most
convenient and precise means of estimating radiation dosage. Accurate
measurements obtained from TLD can be adopted to verify whether the
irradiated area made by a linear accelerator is even. Additionally, using
TLD to estimate radiation dosage can verify the effectiveness of a
therapeutic strategy. According to ICRP
recommendations, radiology technology professionals should not be
exposed to a radiation level exceeding 5 rem annually while the general
public should not be exposed to more than 0.5 rem annually.
The inability to use TLD to test and verify the irradiated
area made by a linear accelerator and the dosage makes it impossible
to ensure the quality of the accelerator and the reliability of the medical
treatment therapy in confirming the dosage and the desired outcome.
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Therefore, we recommend developing a TLD
measurement method than can compare the radiation dose predicted by
a therapeutic treatment plan and actual dose measurements for
verification purposes. To do so, the radiation dose can
be determined using TLDs. Measurement results obtained using TLDs
and an ion chamber can then be compared to obtain an accurate dosage.
Next, the exposure uniformity can be verified using TLDs, thus confiring
the effectiveness of the therapeutic treatment plan. As
anticipated, the proposed TLD measurement method can reduce
percentage error of therapeutic treatment plans by 5%. Hence,
absorption dose of TLDs can further determined whether therapeutic
treatment plan is adequately thorough. Moreover, comparing the dosage
measure of TLDs with that of the treatment plan allows us to verify the
preciseness of such plans if if the measurement dosage of the TLDs is
the same as that of the treatment plans. In addition to
verifying the reliability of therapeutic treatment plans, the proposed
measurement method can ensure that such plans adhere to quality
assurance stands and elevate the accuracy and safety level when
treating carcinogenesis patients. (NOTE : Add 2-4 sentences that
describe more thoroughly how the proposed method contributes to a
particular field or sector)
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Our senior management recently expressed
concern over how to reduce the time in waiting for experimental results
in order to assign a correct therapeutic dosage. Surgery,
radiotherapy and chemical therapy are three conventional approaches
to treat cancer. Radiotherapy is the most effective means of using
radiation for successful resolution. Owing to their inability to estimate
precisely the dose required for cancer patients, conventional
radiotherapy methods normally underestimate or overestimate the
actual treatment dose. Therefore, how to evaluate the
proper and correct dose exactly and efficiently is of priority concern in
radiotherapy. For instance, conventional dose measurement methods
depend on thermoluminescence dosimeter (TLD), which is inefficient
owing to that it requires six to eight hours to reuse. Estimating the
accurate radiation dose for treatment efficiently is essential during a
radiation examination or radiotherapy course. (NOTE : Add 2
sentences that describe characteristics of the problem or statistics that
reflect its severity)
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For instance, a thermoluminescence
dosimeter (TLD) is conventionally used to estimate the
radiation dose because this approach spends too much
time in annealing or the next time measurement. For one
time use, TLD wastes approximately six to eight hours to
prepare. Thus, the same group of TLDs can only make two
counts in one day. The inability to
reduce the time that TLD spends in annealing results in an
unnecessarily long time in waiting for experimental results.
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Therefore, we recommend developing a novel
material, i.e. polycrystalline diamond films produced by chemical
vapor deposition (CVD), for determining efficiently and
straightforwardly the radiation dose of patients or staff.
To do so, following illumination by indoor light, CVD
diamond films can be analyzed to characterize their fundamental
properties. CVD diamond films irradiated by a linear accelerator
can then be counted to elucidate the behavior of CVD diamond
films in a high-energy region. As anticipated, in
addition to this new thermoluminescence material reducing
additional annealing time,, CVD diamond films are a good
dosimeter owing to their sensitivity to high-energy radiation.
Moreover, without the requirement of annealing, this
material is highly promising for other applications, especially in
radiotherapy. (NOTE : Add 2-4 sentences that describe more
thoroughly how the proposed method contributes to a particular
field or sector)
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