Dose Course 2018_Flipping book

From silver halide to radiochromic films

Silver halide films

Radiochromic films

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•No water equivalence

•Water equivalence

•Energy dependence

•No (little) energy dependence

•High spatial resolution

•High spatial resolution

•Saturation high doses

•Saturation high doses

•Sensitive to visible light

•Insensitive to visible light

•Needs developing

•No need of processing- “Real time” development, stability reached in ~ 2 h •Can be evaluated with flatbed scanner (transmission mode-fluorescent light source and a linear CCD array detector)

•Time consuming