An empirical method for the determination of wall perturbation factors for parallel-plate chambers in high-energy electron beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5167-5181

  McEwen, Malcolm ^a   Palmans, Hugo ^b   Williams, Andrew ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CAVITY; EMPIRICAL MODELS; NONZERO PERTURBATION FACTOR; WATER PHANTOM;

BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; GRAPHITE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ALUMINUM; GRAPHITE; MICROSPHERE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CALORIMETER; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; THICKNESS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; GREAT BRITAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 33749630814     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/20/006     Document Type: Article

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