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The goal of this work is to present results of field output factors (OF) using an IBA CC003 (Razor NanoChamber) and compared these results with PTW 60019 (MicroDiamond) and IBA Razor Diode. The experimental results for IBA CC003 were also…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Dalila Mateus , Carlo Greco , Luis Peralta

The purpose of this work was to obtain output correction factors for microDiamond and EFD-3G detectors in very small (less than 5 mm) circular fields. We also investigated the impact of possible variations in microDiamond detector design…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Eyad Alhakeem , Sergei Zavgorodni

Studies measuring the chemical abundances of the neutral gas in star-forming galaxies (SFGs) require ionization correction factors (ICFs) to accurately measure their metal contents. In the work presented here we calculate newly improved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Svea Hernandez , Alessandra Aloisi , Bethan L. James , Gary J. Ferland , Andrew J. Fox , Monica Tosi , Jason Tumlinson

In the present work we used a grid of photoionization models combined with stellar population synthesis models to derive reliable Ionization Correction Factors (ICFs) for the sulphur in star-forming regions. These models cover a large range…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 O. L. Dors , E. Perez-Montero , G. F. Hagele , M. V. Cardaci , A. C. Krabbe

As small radiation fields play an ever-increasing role in radiation therapy, accurate dosimetry of these fields becomes critical to ensure high quality dose calculation and treatment optimization. The PRB-0002, a new plastic scintillation…

Ion chamber dosimetry is being used to calibrate dose for cell irradiations designed to investigate photoactivated Auger electron therapy at the Louisiana State University CAMD synchrotron facility. This study performed a dosimetry…

In-camera light scattering is a typical form of non-systematic interference in indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras, primarily caused by multiple reflections and optical path variations within the camera body. This effect can…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-05 Yansong Du , Jingtong Yao , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Zhaoxiang Jiang , Xun Guan

In 2011 a decision was made by Czech Metrology Institute to build a free-air ionization chamber (FAC) intended to be used as a primary standard of air kerma rate for medium-energy X-rays (photon energy from 40 to 300 keV, including…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-11 Vladimir Sochor , Jaroslav Solc

When measuring diameters of partially resolved sources often a technique called gaussian deconvolution is used. This technique yields a gaussian diameter which subsequently has to be multiplied with a conversion factor to obtain the true…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. A. M. van Hoof

We provide new ionization correction factors (ICFs) for carbon, nitrogen, neon, sulfur, chlorine, and argon in giant H II regions. The ICFs were computed using the most representative photoionization models from a large initial grid. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 A. Amayo , G. Delgado-Inglada , G. Stasinska

Continued demand for accurate and computationally efficient transport methods to solve optically thick, fixed-source transport problems has inspired research on variance-reduction (VR) techniques for Monte Carlo (MC). Methods that use…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-02-18 S. C. Wilson , R. N. Slaybaugh

Ionization chambers are essential for activity determinations in radionuclide metrology. We have developed a high-precision integrating-differentiating (int-diff) system for measuring small currents. It is anticipated to enhance the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-06 Shunyi Liang , Juncheng Liang , Kezhu Song , Yijie Jiang , Zhijie Yang

When measuring diameters of partially resolved sources like planetary nebulae, H II regions or galaxies, often a technique called gaussian deconvolution is used. This technique yields a gaussian diameter which subsequently has to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. M. van Hoof

The quality correction factor $k_{Q,Q_{0}}$ for electron beams was calculated for three thimble ionization chambers, namely, NE2571, NE2571A and NE2581A. The Monte Carlo code PENELOPE was used to estimate the overall correction factor…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 F. Erazo , L. Brualla , A. M. Lallena

Accounting of effective volumetric factor for the measurement at inhomogeneous temperature allows to the simplify the measurement process avoiding a pre-calibration with a noble gas. The volumetric correction in form of the volumetric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-17 I. V. Drozdov

In this paper, we propose a microcavity supported by a designed photonic crystal structure (PhC) that supplies both tunability of cavity modes and quality factor of cavity. Low symmetric defect region provides a trigger effect for the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Melike A. Gumus , Mediha Tutgun , Done Yilmaz , Hamza Kurt

In radiation beam-profile measurements, an accurate positioning of the detector with high position resolution is essential. For this purpose, we built a scanning device capable of moving a detector in three dimensions using mainly parts…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-02 Joonas Tikkanen , Jan Morelius , Teemu Siiskonen

Charge accumulation was measured under calibration conditions in the spread-out Bragg peak (SOBP) using the calibration bias as well as a range of voltages from 10V to 500V and a Farmer-style ion chamber. Collection efficiency was…

The extraction of chemical abundances of ionised nebulae from a limited spectral range is usually hampered by the lack of emission lines corresponding to certain ionic stages. So far, the missing emission lines have been accounted for by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 D. R. Goncalves , R. Wesson , C. Morisset , M. Barlow , B. Ercolano

This paper evaluates and compares the accuracy and robustness of curvature estimation methods for three-dimensional interfaces represented implicitly by discrete volume fractions on a Cartesian mesh. The height function (HF) method is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-22 Austin Han , Fabien Evrard , Olivier Desjardins
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