Radiation induced currents in parallel plate ionization chambers: Measurement and Monte Carlo simulation for megavoltage photon and electron beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3094-3104

  Abdel Rahman, Wamied ^a   Seuntjens, Jan P ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

CHARGE DEPOSITION; COMPTON CURRENTS; CORRECTION FACTORS; ELECTRON CONTAMINATION; EXTRAPOLATION CHAMBER; MEGAVOLTAGE PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; RADIATION-INDUCED CURRENTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON BEAM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

EID: 33748291741     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2208917     Document Type: Article

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