Consistency of absorbed dose to water measurements using 21 ion-chamber models following the AAPM TG51 and TG21 calibration protocols

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1818-1828

  Tailor, Ramesh C ^a   Hanson, William F ^a   Wells, Nathan ^a   Ibbott, Geoffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cylindrical ion chambers; Ion chambers; Plane parallel chambers; TG21; TG51

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; IONS; PHOTONS;

CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; CYLINDRICAL CHAMBERS; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; PLANE-PARALLEL CHAMBERS; REFERENCE DOSIMETRY; TG21; TG51;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; STANDARD;

EID: 33744785437     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2199598     Document Type: Article

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