Measurement of absorbed dose with a bone-equivalent extrapolation chamber

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 433-440

  DeBlois, François ^a   Abdel Rahman, Wamied ^a   Seuntjens, Jan P ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrode correction factors; Extrapolation chamber; Heterogeneous phantom; Parallel plate chamber

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DRIERS (MATERIALS); ELECTRON BEAMS; EXTRAPOLATION; GAMMA RAYS; GRAPHITE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS;

CORRECTION FACTORS; ELECTRODE COMPOSITION; EXTRAPOLATION CHAMBER; GRADIENT MEASUREMENT; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; MEGAVOLTAGE PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL-PLATE CHAMBER;

GRAPHITE ELECTRODES;

COBALT 60; GRAPHITE; STEEL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM EMBEDDED EXTRAPOLATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036129906     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1450133     Document Type: Article

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