BIR Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting 2021: Teaching Session - Dosimetry and detector

17th May 2021  13:00 - 14:00 (GMT+01:00) Europe/Dublin

Welcome to the virtual teaching session on Dosimetry and detector tutored by Dr Russell Thomas on 17 May 2021.

13:0014:00 GMT+1
1 CPD point
This event will be recorded and available after on-demand to those who are registered


This session will briefly discuss the origin of dosimetry, why it matters and its development to current practice. As well as a discussion of different ionisation chamber types, their use and common correction factors, issues surrounding measurement uncertainty and why it is always important to assess uncertainty, will be reviewed. How the use of ionisation chambers fit into a national and international measurements system (specifically the UK’s IPEM codes and the IAEA TRS 398) and the reasons between the different approaches in these protocols, will be explained.

Finally a rogues’ gallery of badly made or failed ionisation chambers will be presented and some of the reasoning why it is not always safe to assume any chamber can act as a reference instrument, will be discussed.

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