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Workshop on Recent Advances in Absorbed Dose Standards 2008

ABSDOS 2003 synopses (PDF 675kb)

Opening and Introduction(PDF 27kb)   J Loy, D V Webb and R B Huntley (ARPANSA)

Photograph of participants(PDF 401kb )

Calorimetry

Evaluation of a second generation Domen-type water calorimeter for absorbed dose in a 60Co beam at NIST (PDF 123kb ), H Chen-Mayer, NIST

The METAS photon-beam primary standard sealed water calorimeter (PDF 365kb ), G Stucki, METAS

Development of a primary standard calorimeter for low energy electron beams (PDF 167kb ), M McEwen, NRC

The heat defect in the PTB water calorimeter: A discussion on uncertainty (PDF 167kb ), H-M Kramer, PTB

Dosimetry of high-energy photon beams with the NMi water calorimeter (PDF 153kb ), A Aalbers, NMi

BNM-LNHB graphite calorimeter: a new constant-temperature operating mode for absorbed dose rate measurements (PDF 205kb ), J Daures, CEA

Scatter and heat conduction correction factors for two glass vessel geometries in sealed water calorimeters (PDF 281kb), H Palmans, NPL

Feasability of graphite and water calorimetry in low-energy clinical proton beams (PDF 266kb), H Palmans, NPL

General Interest

Performance of an off-the-shelf clinical linac for radiation standards dosimetry(PDF 179kb), M McEwen, NRC

Continuity of Australian standards of absorbed dose for 60Co: Comparison of beam quality correction factors for 18 MV beams from clinical and research linacs (PDF 89kb ), J Boas, Monash University

Absorbed dose to arbitrary materials(PDF 215kb), R Huntley, ARPANSA

International Symposium on Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry – Recommendations(PDF 63kb), F Pernicka, IAEA

Australian secondary standards of dosimetry (PDF 78kb), J Davies, ANSTO

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the ISO GUM But Were Afraid To Ask (PDF 135kb), R Bentley, NML

Absorbed dose to water for 60Co using the pancake graphite ionization chamber (PDF 411kb), S-H Su, INER

A new dosimetry protocol for external beam radiotherapy in Japan (PDF 107kb), A Fukumura, NIRS

A novel signal processing method for the Nmi water calorimeter (PDF 160kb), L de Prez, NMi

Low energy proton beam dosimetry with plane-parallel chambers using NPL electron and 60Co calibrations (PDF 160kb), R Thomas, NPL

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