Absorbed dose beam quality correction factors k(Q) for the NE2571 chamber in a 5 MV and a 10 MV photon beam

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 647-663

  Palmans, Hugo ^a   Mondelaers, Wim ^a   Thierens, Hubert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALIBRATION; CALORIMETER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BELGIUM; CALIBRATION; CALORIMETRY; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; WATER;

EID: 0033002724     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/3/002     Document Type: Article

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