2ND EUROMET COMPARISON OF AIR KERMA RATE AND ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS OFIR-192 BRACHYTHERAPY WIRES

Authors
REHER DFG AALBERS AHL BJERKE H DRUGGE N GENKA T ROSSITER MJ SANTRY D SEPHTON JP SIBBENS G SEUNTJENS J THIERENS H VERHAEGEN F WILLIAMS TT WOODS MJ
Citation
Dfg. Reher et al., 2ND EUROMET COMPARISON OF AIR KERMA RATE AND ACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS OFIR-192 BRACHYTHERAPY WIRES, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 339(1-2), 1994, pp. 386-390
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
339
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
386 - 390
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)339:1-2<386:2ECOAK>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
At the occasion of the EUROMET Workshop on Ionising Radiation and Radi oactivity at the NPL, it was decided to carry out a second intercompar ison on air kerma rate (AKR) and activity measurements on Ir-192 brach ytherapy sources in the frame of EUROMET project no. 219. The intercom parison has shown that both air kerma rate measurements and activity m easurements of Ir-192 brachytherapy wires are not trivial. One of the drawbacks is the appreciable inhomogeneity of the wires. Disregarding some outliers, the spread of the AKR measurements was below 1.5%, whil e the variation in the activity measurements was very large, due to re asons which are not completely understood.