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Characterization of Recombination Effects in a Liquid Ionization Chamber Used for the Dosimetry of a Radiosurgical Accelerator
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Comment on 'Lateral response heterogeneity of Bragg peak ionization chambers for narrow-beam photon and proton
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ 85054, United States of America.
Physics in Medicine and Biology
|August 16, 2019
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Lateral response heterogeneity of Bragg peak ionization chambers was measured by Kuess et al (2017) using collimated x-rays. It is argued in this comment that the laterally extended low dose tails of the collimated x-rays should be accurately measured and included in the study.
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