Research Article

Evaluation of Wall Correction Factor of INER's Air-Kerma Primary Standard Chamber and Dose Variation by Source Displacement for HDR 192Ir Brachytherapy

Table 4

Calculation comparison for wall correction factors of the 192Ir primary standard chambers for NPL and NIST.

The NPL primary standard chamber for 192Ir
Wall correction factors calculated byNPLINERDifference
k wall values1.04531.0429 āˆ’0.23%

The NIST primary standard chamber (50cc-1) for 192Ir
Wall correction factors calculated byNISTINERDifference
k wall values1.03491.0395 0.44%