Dose Course 2018_Flipping book

Dose rate dependence in photon beams

Diamond

•

+ k · D 

I = I

Shielded diode

dark

where k and  should be fitted for each individual diamond detector. Typical values of  range from 0.90 to 0.99.

Liquid ion chamber

 =0.987

Diamond

 =0.96

6 MV

 =0.979

PTW Diamond 1 PTW Diamond 2

Westermark et al [3]

De Angelis et al [15]