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Synthesis and Evaluation of Thermoluminescence Properties of Zro2:Mg for Radiotherapy Dosimetry Publisher Pubmed



Amarlou A1 ; Mohammadi K2 ; Banaee N3 ; Nedaei HA1, 4
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  1. 1. Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Malek Ashtar University, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Medical Radiation Research Center, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Radiation Oncology Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Radiation and Environmental Biophysics Published:2021


Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the thermoluminescent properties of ZrO2:Mg irradiated with a 6 MV X-ray beam and its potential application in radiotherapy dosimetry. ZrO2 powder was synthesized using the sol–gel method and Mg was used as a dopant. Irradiations were performed with ZrO2:Mg chips located at the center of a 10 × 10 cm2 radiation field at a source surface distance of 100 cm, below a stack of solid water slabs, at the depth of maximum absorbed dose. The investigated characteristics of the material included linearity with radiation dose, reproducibility, accuracy, sensitivity and fading. Regarding the intrinsic difference of the samples, the glow curves of the investigated ZrO2:Mg chips exposed to 1 Gy of 6 MV X-rays exhibited three or four peaks. The ZrO2:Mg samples showed a 47% fading at 24 h after irradiation, and the reproducibility of the thermoluminescence reading of ZrO2:Mg for equal irradiation conditions was ± 21%. The thermoluminescence response of the investigated ZrO2:Mg samples to various absorbed doses from 0.5 to 2.5 Gy showed a gentle increase of the thermoluminescence intensity with increasing absorbed dose. The obtained results show that ZrO2:Mg is not an appropriate candidate for X-ray photons in radiotherapy, due to low thermoluminescence peak temperature, low reproducibility, low sensitivity to various absorbed doses and significant fading. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.