Experimental determination of beam quality factors, kQ, for two types of Farmer chamber in a 10 MV photon and a 175 MeV proton beam

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1503-1521

  Medin, Joakim ^a   Ross, Carl K ^b   Klassen, Norman V ^b   Palmans, Hugo ^c   Grusell, Erik ^d   Grindborg, Jan Erik ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROTON BEAMS;

BEAM QUALITY FACTORS; FARMER CHAMBER; IONOMETRY;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALORIMETER; CALORIMETRY; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE;

CALIBRATION; CALORIMETRY; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; ELECTRONS; IONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROTONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; WATER;

EID: 33644671590     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/010     Document Type: Article

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