A comparison of different experimental methods for general recombination correction for liquid ionization chambers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7161-7175

  Andersson, Jonas ^a   Kaiser, Franz Joachim ^b,c,d   Gómez, Faustino ^e   Jäkel, Oliver ^b,f   Pardo Montero, Juan ^e   Tölli, Heikki ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Rinecker Proton Therapy Center   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE CORRECTION; CONTINUOUS BEAMS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RATE; EQUATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PULSED BEAMS; RADIATION FIELD; RECOMBINATION LOSS; SMALL VARIATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELLING;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LIQUIDS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRICITY; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRICITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84868024299     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/21/7161     Document Type: Article

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