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Characterization of Recombination Effects in a Liquid Ionization Chamber Used for the Dosimetry of a Radiosurgical Accelerator
Published on: May 9, 2014
A new reference-type ionization chamber with direction-independent response for use in small-field photon-beam
Björn Delfs1, Ralf-Peter Kapsch2, Ndimofor Chofor3
1University Clinic for Medical Radiation Physics, Medical Campus Pius Hospital, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany.
Abstract:
The frequently applied narrow and non-standard transverse dose profiles of intensity modulated photon-beam radiotherapy, lacking lateral secondary electron equilibrium, require the use of high-resolution dosimetry detectors, and small air-filled detectors are recommended as the reference detectors for cross-calibration of the high-resolution detectors. The present study focuses on the dosimetric properties of a novel cylindrical ionization chamber, the PTW Semiflex 3D 31021. The chamber's effective point of measurement was found to lie at (0.41±0.04) r downstream the tip of the inner surface of the spherical front wall in the axial orientation and (0.46±0.04) r upstream the chamber axis in the radial orientation. Due to its symmetrical design, the sigma values of its lateral dose response functions for all chamber's orientations are the same (2.10±0.05mm). The polarity correction factors obtained in this work do not exceed 0.1% and the saturation correction factor was below 1% up to a dose-per-pulse value of 0.956mGy. The radiation quality correction factor kQ of the chamber as a function of the tissue-phantom-ratio, TPR20,10, has been calculated by Monte Carlo simulation and has been determined experimentally at the German Metrology Institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB). The values of the non-reference condition correction factor kNR have been Monte-Carlo-calculated for use of the chamber at various depths and field sizes.
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