Abstract
In this work, a novel sensitive composition of Fricke radio-chromic gel dosimeter based on polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), xylenol orange (XO), and physical cross-linking agent gellan gum (GG) is presented and evaluated with two optically detection methods. The Fricke dosimeter was irradiated up to 30Gy using medical linear accelerator and analyzed optically using ultraviolet visible (UV–Vis) spectrophotometry technique at wavelengths of 585 nm (i.e., within the visible range) and two-dimensional optical imaging system of charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera with a uniform red light-emitting-diode (LED) array source. The Fricke dosimeter demonstrated important properties including independence of beam energy and dose rate over the range studied. In addition, these dosimeters have high sensitivity in the range of 0–10Gy, and significant low diffusion coefficient of 0.070 mm2 h−1. In addition, the composition shows a lower diffusion coefficient with respect to those reported so far for a Fricke dosimeter. The total uncertainty of the estimated doses for the Fricke dosimeter was 3.96% at 95% confidence level.
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