Wall correction factors for calibration of plane-parallel ionization chambers with high-energy photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2509-2517

  Araki, Fujio ^a   Ikeda, Ryuji ^b   Shirakawa, Yuichi ^b   Shimonobou, Toshiaki ^b   Moribe, Nobuyuki ^b   Takada, Takao ^b   Takahashi, Mutsumasa ^b   Oura, Hiroki ^c   Matoba, Masaru ^d  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KUMAMOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; IONIZATION; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 0033799897     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/9/305     Document Type: Article

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