Measurement of ionization chamber absorbed dose kQ factors in megavoltage photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2179-2193

  McEwen, Malcolm R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorbed dose calibration coefficients; Ion recombination; Ionization chambers; KQ factors; Polarity; Reference dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SCANNING;

CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS; ION RECOMBINATION; KQ FACTORS; POLARITY; REFERENCE DOSIMETRY;

PHOTOIONIZATION;

EID: 77952340515     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3375895     Document Type: Article

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