PENENTUAN FAKTOR KELUARAN BERKAS ELEKTRON LAPANGAN KECIL PADA PESAWAT LINEAR ACCELERATOR

Abstract

The electron beam has a uniform dose distribution on the surface so it is often used as a cancer therapy, especially at the body surface. Cancers that are located close to organs at risk require treatment using a small field, so that accurate dosimetry for electron beam small field becomes a challenge. Output measurement performed using electron beam detector Exradin ion chamber A11 plan-parallel and gafchromic film EBT-3 placed on slab of solid water phantom at the depth of the reference (zref) and maximum depth (zmax). Both of detector is irradiated with an electron beam energy of 6, 8, 10, 12, and 15 MeV in the field of small square shaped measuring 1 x 1, 2 x 2, 3 x 3, 5 x 5, 8 x 8 and 10 x 10 cm2 made of cerrobend. Output factors is determined by the ratio between the measurement results at a maximum depth (zmax) and the measurement results on the reference depth (zref). The results obtained show that the decline in output factor proportional to a decrease field size and comprehensive energy electron beam. There are also differences in the value of the output of the two detectors are among a maximum of 78.3% - 85.7% on field 1 X 1, and a minimum of 0.15% - 0.66% on 8 X 8 in all the energy, so that the detector movie gafchromic EBT-3 sanngat well used for measurement electron beam pitch.