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PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 23, Pages 5309-5318Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/23/008
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The use of ionization chambers in linac radiotherapy dosimetry requires various corrections to the measured charges, one of these being the recombination correction. The recombination correction factor (k(s)) is generally estimated from the two-voltage analysis (TVA) for each beam quality. However. it is possible that the ionization chamber above some threshold polarizing voltage does not follow the accepted Boag theory very well. Secondly the TVA is time-consuming as the chamber needs to stabilize after each polarizing voltage change and since it must be performed for each beam quality. Another approach consists in using the fact that ks is predicted to depend linearly on dose per pulse by Boag theory: determining this relationship once and for all using a multi-voltage analysis (MVA), one also checks the range validity of the Boag theory for the chamber considered. This work presents a thorough analysis of ks dependence on dose per pulse of FC65-G (cylindrical) and Roos (plane-parallel) ionization chambers in pulsed photon and electron beams, respectively. Within the uncertainties, the recombination factors are found to be independent of beam quality, and no deviation from the Boag theory is observed within the tested range of polarizing voltages. Before adapting the equations given using the MVA other users should check that their ionization chambers show the same dose per pulse dependence using the TVA for a few beam qualities.
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