Thermal and temporal response of ionization chambers in radiation dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 573-578

  Das, Indra J ^a   Zhu, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Humidity correction; Ion chamber; Temporal response; Thermal response

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRODES; IONS; PHANTOMS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

CORRECTION FACTORS; ELECTRODE COMPOSITION; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; HUMIDITY CORRECTION; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; THERMAL COEFFICIENTS; THERMAL RESPONSE;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRODE; HUMIDITY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1642362277     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1644520     Document Type: Article

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