Development of a graphite probe calorimeter for absolute clinical dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Renaud, James ^a   Marchington, David ^b   Seuntjens, Jan ^a   Sarfehnia, Arman ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

absolute dosimetry; graphite calorimetry; heat transfer modeling; proof of concept; reference dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRAPHITE; HEAT LOSSES; ISOTHERMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS; PROBES; SPECIFIC HEAT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; DOSE CONVERSION FACTOR; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; NUMERICAL HEAT TRANSFER; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REFERENCE DOSIMETRY; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; TEMPERATURE CONTROLLERS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

WATER; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GRAPHITE PROBE CALORIMETER; HEAT LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE CONTROLLER; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMISTOR; UNCERTAINTY; CALORIMETRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; HUMAN; RADIOMETRY;

CALORIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84873596796     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4773870     Document Type: Article

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