A Review of Ionization Chambers Developed for Use at the Brazilian IPEN Calibration Laboratory

L Pereira Neves, AP Perini, LVE Caldas - Brazilian Journal of Physics, 2024 - Springer
Over the past 35 years, the Calibration Laboratory of IPEN (LCI) has seen significant
advancements in the development of ionization chambers. This paper highlights the key …

A simple method for evaluation of half-value layer variation in CT equipment

AF Maia, LVE Caldas - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Tandem systems, each formed by a pencil ionization chamber with and without a specific
covering, were developed and tested in standard radiation beams. These systems were …

Characterization of a CT ionization chamber for radiation field mapping

AP Perini, LP Neves, V Vivolo, M Xavier… - Applied Radiation and …, 2012 - Elsevier
A pencil-type ionization chamber, developed at Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e
Nucleares (IPEN), was characterized with the objective to verify the possibility of its …

Investigation and performance tests of a new parallel plate ionization chamber with double sensitive volume for measuring diagnostic X-rays

B Sharifi, HZ Zeinali, J Soltani, A Negarestani… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Medical diagnostic equipment, like diagnostic radiology and mammography require a
dosimeter with high accuracy for dosimetry of the diagnostic X-ray beam. Ionization …

Performance of a prototype of an extrapolation minichamber in various radiation beams

ML Oliveira, LVE Caldas - Applied radiation and isotopes, 2007 - Elsevier
An extrapolation minichamber was developed for measuring doses from weakly penetrating
types of radiation. The chamber was tested at the radiotherapeutic dose level in a beam from …

Preliminary studies of a new monitor ionization chamber

MT Yoshizumi, V Vivolo, LVE Caldas - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2010 - Elsevier
A new monitor ionization chamber was developed at Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e
Nucleares (IPEN) in order to monitor X-ray beams. The main difference of this monitor …

Desenvolvimento de um sistema de referência para determinação do equivalente de dose pessoal e da constância de feixes de radiação X

V Vivolo - 2006 - teses.usp.br
Um sistema de referência para determinação do equivalente de dose pessoal, HP (10), e
um programa de controle da qualidade de sistemas geradores de raios X utilizados em …

TL tandem systems for the determination of effective energy in X radiation beams

ML Oliveira, AF Maia - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2010 - Elsevier
Tandem systems usually comprise two detectors with different radiation energy responses
and are utilized to determine the effective energy of unknown radiation beams. The aim of …

[PDF][PDF] Implantação de um programa de controle de qualidade em equipamentos de raios X por meio de medidores não invasivos

RF Lucena - 2010 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
RESUMO O objetivo desse trabalho foi estudar o comportamento do principal equipamento
de raios X utilizado nos procedimentos do laboratório de calibração do IPEN, LCI, operado …

Desempenho de um sistema tandem para controle de qualidade em radiodiagnóstico

JO Silva, LVE Caldas - Revista Brasileira de Física Médica, 2010 - rbfm.org.br
Desempenho de um sistema tandem para controle de qualidade em radiodiagnóstico Page 1
Artigo Original Associação Brasileira de Física Médica® 27 Introdução O programa de controle …