FIG. 2.
Schematic of the OCTOPUS™-scanner. A single laser beam scans the dosimeter in rastering fashion. A one-dimensional projection (attenuation of the laser light in the horizontal direction) is acquired at each step. The dosimeter is then incrementally rotated and another one-dimensional projection is acquired. The data from multiple such one-dimensional projections over a 360° scan are used to reconstruct attenuation coefficients of the dosimeter for one slice. Data for multiple such slices are obtained for 3D dose-readout.