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Comparing calibration methods of electron beams using plane-parallel chambers with absorbed-dose to water based protocols.

Abstract：

:Recent absorbed-dose-based protocols allow for two methods of calibrating electron beams using plane-parallel chambers, one using the N(Co)D,w for a plane-parallel chamber, and the other relying on cross-calibration of the plane-parallel chamber in a high-energy electron beam against a cylindrical chamber which has an N(Co)D,w factor. The second method is recommended as it avoids problems associated with the Pwall correction factors at 60Co for plane-parallel chambers which are used in the determination of the beam quality conversion factors. In this article we investigate the consistency of these two methods for the PTW Roos, Scanditronics NACP02, and PTW Markus chambers. We processed our data using both the AAPM TG-51 and the IAEA TRS-398 protocols. Wall correction factors in 60Co beams and absorbed-dose beam quality conversion factors for 20 MeV electrons were derived for these chambers by cross-calibration against a cylindrical ionization chamber. Systematic differences of up to 1.6% were found between our values of Pwall and those from the Monte Carlo calculations underlying AAPM TG-51, and up to 0.6% when comparing with the IAEA TRS-398 protocol. The differences in Pwall translate directly into differences in the beam quality conversion factors in the respective protocols. The relatively large spread in the experimental data of Pwall, and consequently the absorbed-dose beam quality conversion factor, confirms the importance of the cross-calibration technique when using plane-parallel chambers for calibrating clinical electron beams. We confirmed that for well-guarded plane-parallel chambers, the fluence perturbation correction factor at d(max) is not significantly different from the value at d(ref). For the PTW Markus chamber the variation in the latter factor is consistent with published fits relating it to average energy at depth.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Stewart KJ,Seuntjens JP

doi

10.1118/1.1449876

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-03-01 00:00:00

pages

284-9

issue

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

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Comparing calibration methods of electron beams using plane-parallel chambers with absorbed-dose to water based protocols.