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A protocol for the determination of absorbed dose from high‐energy photon and electron beams
Author(s) -
Aapm
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.595446
Subject(s) - calibration , dosimetry , absorbed dose , photon , radiation , medical physics , physics , electron , protocol (science) , nuclear medicine , radiological weapon , optics , nuclear physics , medicine , radiology , alternative medicine , pathology , quantum mechanics
A protocol is given to provide radiological physicists with an accurate means of measuring radiation doses on phantoms. Plastics, as well as water, are considered as phantoms. A new quantity, the cavity‐gas calibration factor, is introduced.(AIP)