Abstract:
In order to achieve accurate measurement of the absorbed dose of beta radiation, the main influence factors of the extrapolation chamber entrance window correction factor
kwi were studied.
kwi at different cavity lengths and different sourcedetection distances was measured by experiments. The results show that the correction factor
kwi with the same source-detection distance decreases with the increase of the cavity length. And
kwi decreases with the increase of the source-detection distance when the cavity length is 3 mm. The calculated
kwi without flattened filter at source-detection distance of 30 cm and cavity length of 3 mm was simulated using Monte Carlo method. The simulation result is 1.084 5, which differs from the experiment result by 0.11%. Therefore, in addition to the correction factor
kwi, corresponding source-detection distance and cavity length should be supplied.