Monte Carlo study of correction factors for Spencer - Attix cavity theory at photon energies at or above 100 keV

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1804-1813

  Borg, Jette ^a   Kawrakow, Iwan ^a   Rogers, D W O ^a   Seuntjens, Jan P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

192Ir; Cavity theory; Ion chamber; Monte Carlo EGSnrc; Stopping power ratio

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PHOTONS;

CAVITY THEORY; CORRECTION FACTORS; LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; STOPPING POWER; ^192IR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CESIUM 137;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; STANDARD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033861873     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1287054     Document Type: Article

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