{"id":893,"date":"2022-08-08T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T08:44:14","slug":"plastic-scintillators-dosimetry-in-radiology-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/plastic-scintillators-dosimetry-in-radiology-applications\/893.html","title":{"rendered":"Plastic scintillators dosimetry in radiology applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plastic scintillators have attractive characteristics that can be exploit in dosimetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless their application with low-energy photon beam is still limited. We aim to a better understanding of their capabilities at the radiology regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A study of the characteristics of a polystyrene <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/Scintillators\/Plastic-Scintillators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plastic scintillator<\/a><\/strong> dosimeter, coupled to a WLS fiber is made in this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The energy dependence for this detector is extracted for photon beams between 20 and 100 kVp and additional filtrations of 0.5, 1 and 4 mm of Al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic scintillators have attractive characterist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}