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Measuring the dose the patient actually receives, with detectors on the skin or the imaging panel behind them, to catch errors before they cause harm.
Radiotherapy accidents, though rare, have come from wrong plans, wrong patients and machine faults. Patient-specific quality assurance checks each complex plan on a phantom before the first treatment, and in vivo dosimetry measures the dose during treatment with diodes, thermoluminescent detectors or, increasingly, the electronic portal imaging device behind the patient, which reconstructs the delivered dose in three dimensions. Several countries require in vivo dosimetry by regulation; it is also central to safe FLASH and ultra-high-dose-rate research.
Independent measurement of the delivered dose, compared with the planned dose, detects errors in planning, setup or machine output.
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Open-source projects that implement or serve this technology, from OnCo's own catalogue: licence and last activity as the repository reported them on the day of the fetch. Listing is not endorsement; check the licence before reuse and the validation before clinical use.
An open-hardware personal radiation dosimeter from Stanford, built from a low-cost scintillator and off-the-shelf parts.