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 special ionisation chamber for quality control of diagnostic and mammography X ray equipment

A M. Costa, L VE Caldas - Radiation protection dosimetry, 2003 - academic.oup.com
A quality control program for X ray equipment used for conventional radiography and
mammography requires the constancy check of the beam qualities in terms of the half-value …

Two new parallel-plate ionization chambers for electron beam dosimetry

CN De Souza, LVE Caldas, CH Sibata, AK Ho… - Radiation …, 1996 - Elsevier
Two parallel-plate ionization chambers were projected, constructed and evauated for use in
high energy electron beams. They were constructed using the two plastic materials …

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 …

Response characteristics of a tandem ionization chamber in standard X-ray beams

AM Costa, LVE Caldas - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2003 - Elsevier
A tandem ionization chamber was developed for quality control programs of the kilovoltage
X-ray equipment used in radiotherapy. This chamber was tested and calibrated in low …

Design and study of the characteristics of a versatile ionization chamber for gamma-ray dosimetry

M Fares, A Messai, S Begaa, M Messaoudi… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2020 - Springer
This work present the experimental characteristics study of the versatile gamma ionization
chamber that is designed, developed and distinguished in our laboratory. All tests were …

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 …

Development of a motorized system for the characterization of the RQR reference x-ray beams at the KFSHRC's SSDL using an extrapolation chamber

M Arib, R Ayad, H Alhamdan, M Ababtain… - Applied Radiation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
An extrapolation chamber of type Böhm 23392, used for the dosimetry of RQR beam
qualities at the Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory of King Faisal Specialist Hospital …

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 …

Application of extrapolation chambers in low-energy X-rays as reference systems

EAB da Silva, LVE Caldas - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2012 - Elsevier
Extrapolation chambers are instruments designed to measure doses of low-energy
radiations, mainly beta radiation. In this work, a commercial extrapolation chamber and a …