Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare the energy dependence of Radio-Photoluminescent Glass Dosimeter (RPLGD) with thermoluminescent LiF:Mg,Ti (TLD-100) and Optically stimulated luminescent (Al2O3:C) dosimeters. In this work, a Monte Carlo simulation with MCNP5 was carried out to estimate the energy responses of these dosimeters. The following common clinical radiation qualities were applied: 50–300 kVp X-rays, 4–20 MeV electron beam and 60Co γ rays as the reference. The current study is compared to previous measurements and MC simulation in literature. For kilovoltage photon beams, the dosimeters displayed an increasing response with decreasing energy with a significant over response factor at 70 kVp of RPLGD and Al2O3:C about 4.39 and 3.40 respectively, and a maximum of about 1.40 for TLD-100. For electron beams were found to be with a maximum of 5.1% and 3.5% for RPLGD and TLD-100 dosimeters respectively, for OSLD a maximum of 6% in 6–20 MeV and 11% at 4 MeV. This paper has clearly confirmed that all three dosimeters should be used with an energy compensation filter in low energy X-ray (<250 kV). All studied dosimeters are recommended for clinical and experimental use particularly in radiotherapy.