Radiation detection and measurement

Introduction

Kerma

Units of kerma and dose

Measurement and standardization of dose

Traceability of measurement

Standard calorimeter

The free air chamber

Charged particle equilibrium

Practical ionization chambers

Bragg-Gray cavity theory

Dose determination based on calibrated instruments

Requirements for practical ionization chambers

Thimble ionization chamber

Measurement of dose and dose rate

The parallel plate ionization chamber

The beam monitor chamber

Intercomparisons with secondary standard instruments

Strontium consistency check device

Ionization chamber corrections

Ion recombination losses

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