Abstract

We report here on first intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) clinical tests performed at the Gustave Roussy Institute in France using one small (0.117 mm3) synthetic single crystal diamond detector (SCDD). We report the comparison between the point doses evaluated with our detector, with a PTW semiflex air ionization chamber (0.125 cm3) and calculated with the treatment planning system (TPS), respectively. The obtained results show a maximum difference of 2.3% for the diamond detector and of 4.6% for the ionization chamber, as compared with the TPS calculations. These very promising results show the potentiality of chemical vapor deposited SCDD for dosimetry of IMRT fields and opens up the field for diamond dosimeters toward novel applications such as very small beam monitoring.

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