Code of practice for electron beam dosimetry in radiotherapy
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 30 (11) , 1169-1194
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/30/11/001
Abstract
This code of practice applies to the measurement of absorbed dose to water in an electron beam using an ionisation chamber calibrated in terms of air kerma in a phantom exposed to a beam of 60Co gamma radiation.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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