Experimental analysis of general ion recombination in a liquid-filled ionization chamber in high-energy photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Chung, Eunah ^a   Davis, Stephen ^a   Seuntjens, Jan ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

general ion recombination; liquid filled ionization chamber

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; LIQUIDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

CALCULATED VALUES; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; ION RECOMBINATION; POLARIZATION VOLTAGE; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSED RADIATION;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

ION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIQUID; PHOTON THERAPY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84878904361     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4805109     Document Type: Article

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