title: Thermoluminescence of 7LiF in therapeutic high linear energy transfer (LET) charged-particle beams.
abstract: The thermoluminescence of the 200 and 260 degrees C peaks of 7LiF has been measured and compared with off-axis dose and depth-dose distributions for three therapeutic high-LET beams: negative pions, helium ions and neon ions. The methods of analysis consisted of both a single-peak analysis and the dual-peak analysis methods of Hogstrom and Irifune and Hoffmann et al. The results indicate that 7LiF, analysed by the dual-peak analysis methods, is potentially useful for extracting total dose, high-LET dose, and beam quality of helium-ion and negative-pion beams. For the higher-LET neon beam, differences in sensitivity between the 200 and 260 degrees C peaks of 7LiF were found to be independent of variations in LET within the beam; consequently, only the single-peak analysis method is applicable in which case the dosemeter at best can only estimate total dose.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Hogstrom
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Hilko
mesh_terms: D005459:Fluorides; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium; D018020:Lithium Compounds; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011882:Radiotherapy, High-Energy; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry
chemical_list: D018020:Lithium Compounds; C027651:lithium fluoride; D008094:Lithium; D005459:Fluorides