The saturation loss for plane parallel ionization chambers at high dose per pulse values

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1869-1883

  Piermattei, A ^a   Delle Canne, S ^a   Azario, L ^a   Russo, A ^a   Fidanzio, A ^a   Miceli, R ^a   Soriani, A ^b   Orvieto, A ^b   Fantini, M ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Hitesys SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM 51;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; FILM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRONS; FILM DOSIMETRY; IONS; KINETICS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; WATER;

EID: 0033926749     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/7/312     Document Type: Article

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