Measurement of Prepl Pwall factors in electron beams and in a 60Co beam for plane-parallel chambers
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 25 (8) , 1453-1457
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.598330
Abstract
This paper describes a method to measure the product of Prepl Pwall correction factors for ionization chambers and presents our measured values of Prepl Pwall for Markus plane-parallel chambers in electron beams. It is shown that the measured values of Prepl Pwall can be fitted to an equation, Prepl Pwall = c1 + c2 R50 + c3 (R50)2, for Markus chambers at the new reference depth for electron beams (6 MeV < or = nominal energy E < or = 20 MeV). We also present our measured values of Prepl Pwall for NACP and Markus chambers in a water phantom irradiated in a 60Co beam.Keywords
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