Ion-recombination correction for different ionization chambers in high dose rate flattening-filter-free photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2819-2827

  Lang, Stephanie ^a   Hrbacek, Jan ^a   Leong, Aidan ^a   Klöck, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHARGE COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DOSE RATE; FIELD SIZE; FLATTENED BEAMS; FLATTENING FILTERS; HIGH DOSE RATE; LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MARKUS CHAMBERS; PHOTON BEAMS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; REFERENCE DOSIMETRY; SOURCE-SURFACE DISTANCE;

DOSIMETRY; IONS; LIQUIDS;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84860138689     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/9/2819     Document Type: Article

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