A review of Supplement No.10 Depth Dose Tables for Use in Radiotherapy (1961)

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A review of Supplement No.10 Depth Dose Tables for Use in Radiotherapy (1961)Published Online:29 May 2014https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-41-492-932SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail AboutAbstractA working party of the Hospital Physicists' Association has reviewed the data for high energy X and γ rays published in Supplement No. 10 (1961). It was decided that it was not necessary to review the data for low and medium energy X rays at this time because very little new information has been published for radiation in this quality range since the Supplement was published.The working party has been fortunate in having the collaboration of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (A.A.P.M.) and the International Atomic Energy Agency in this work. The A.A.P.M. took responsibility for reviewing the data for electron beams (Section 9) and their conclusions are included in this report.All radiotherapy departments known to the three organisations mentioned were asked to supply depth dose data for review and replies were received from 89 centres. Detailed comparisons were made between the new data and those in Supplement No. 10, and these have shown that while some minor changes are desirable, no extensive modification of the existing data is needed. This conclusion is justified, section by section, in the following paragraphs. The information about the availability of isodose curves in the introduction to Supplement No. 10 is revised in a new section F. Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byCobalt-60 axial percentage depth doses are consistent27 May 2002 | Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 20, No. 4Spectral Distributions From 60 Co Therapy Units8 July 2009 | Acta Radiologica: Therapy, Physics, Biology, Vol. 12, No. 6Procedures in Radiation Therapy Dosimetry with 5 to 50 MeV Electrons and Roentgen and Gamma Rays with Maximum Photon Energies Between 1 and 50 MeV: Recommendations by the Nordic Association of Clinical Physics8 July 2009 | Acta Radiologica: Therapy, Physics, Biology, Vol. 11, No. 6Protocol for the dosimetry of X- and gamma-ray beams with maximum energies between 0-6 and 50 MeV5 August 2002 | Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 16, No. 3Dosimetric Measurements at the Nordic Medical Accelerators I. Characteristics of the radiation beam8 July 2009 | Acta Radiologica: Therapy, Physics, Biology, Vol. 10, No. 3Tissue-air ratio formulae in 60Co teletherapy dosimetryJohn Melski28 January 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 43, No. 515Extending the dynamic range of the photoscan displayR. Sear and P. M. Dean28 January 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 43, No. 515A general expression for megavoltage central axis depth dosesRobert L. Thomas29 May 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 43, No. 512Book review “Nuklearmedizin. Szintigraphische Diagnostik”, in German. By FeineUlrich and WinkelKarl zum, with contributions from BreitlingG., JahnsE. and WolfR., and introduction by ScheerK. E., pp. 432, 555 illus., 68 tables, 1969 (Stuttgart, Georg Thieme Verlag), DM.120.N. G. Trott29 May 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 43, No. 512The cobalt 60 depth doses and back-scatter factor data in the British Journal of Radiology Supplement No. 10K. C. Tsien28 January 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 42, No. 497Are dose records and medical supervision necessary for low level radiation exposures?R. Oliver28 January 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 42, No. 497The value of the lateral stooping position in the demonstration of the cardia and fundus of the stomachMax Ryan28 January 2014 | The British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 42, No. 497 Volume 41, Issue 492December 1968Pages: 885-958 © The British Institute of Radiology History Published onlineMay 29,2014 Metrics Download PDF