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PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 8, Pages N115-N124Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/8/N01
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The most recent electron dosimetry code of practice for radiotherapy written by the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine was published in 2003 and is based on the NPL electron absorbed dose to water calibration service. NPL has calibrated many Scanditronix type NACP-02 and PTW Roos type 34001 parallel plate ionization chambers in terms of absorbed dose to water, for use with the code of practice. The results of the calibrations of these chamber types summarized here include the absorbed dose to water sensitivity, where the mean calibration factor standard deviations are 5.8% for NACP-02 chambers and 1.1% for PTW Roos chambers. The correction for the polarity effect is shown to be small (less than 0.2% for all beam qualities) but with a discernible beam quality dependence. The correction for recombination is shown to be consistent and reproducible, and an analysis of these results suggests that the plate separation of the NACP-02 chambers is more variable from chamber to chamber than with the PTW Roos chambers. The calibration of these chambers is shown to be repeatable within +/-0.2% over 2-3 years. It is also shown that check source measurements can be repeated within +/-0.3% over several years. The results justify the use of NACP-02 and PTW 34001 chambers as secondary standards, but also indicate that the PTW 34001 chambers show less variation from chamber to chamber.
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