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| Year : 1997 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 169-194 |
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Surface Dose Measurements Using Parallel Plate Markus Chamber For 60co, 6 & 10 MV Photon Beams
HK Malhotra, DD Deshpande, SV Salvi
Correspondence Address:
HK Malhotra
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
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Fixed volume parallel plate ion chambers are commonly employed for surface dose measurement
purposes as the much desired extrapolation chambers are rarely available in a department. They, however,
overestimate the surface doses by an appreciable amount, sometimes as much as a factor of 2, and needs careful consideration before using measured data for clinical dosimetry. Surface dose measurements were carried out for 60Co, 6 and 10 MV photon beams using a PTW Markus parallel plate chamber as well as UF TLD powder. The Markus chamber was found to over-response the surface dose measurements by 18.7%, 10.6% and 6.7% in absolute terms for 6 0co, 6 and 10 MV, respectively, which is in conformity with the available literature. |
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