On the property of measurements with the PTW microLion chamber in continuous beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4775-4787

  Andersson, Jonas ^a   Johansson, Erik ^b   Tölli, Heikki ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ambient electric field; continuous beam; general recombination; isooctane; liquid ionization chamber; perturbation; radiation dosimetry; tetramethylsilane; two dose rate method

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAFFINS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; POLYOLS; SILANES;

CONTINUOUS BEAMS; DOSE RATE; GENERAL RECOMBINATION; ISOOCTANE; LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PERTURBATION; TETRAMETHYLSILANE;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

EID: 84864685920     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736804     Document Type: Article

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