title: An investigation of the operating characteristics of two PTW diamond detectors in photon and electron beams.
abstract: The dosimetric properties of two PTW Riga diamond detectors type 60003 were studied in high-energy photon and electron therapy beam. Properties under study were current-voltage characteristic, polarization effect, time stability of response, dose response, dose-rate dependence, temperature stability, and beam quality dependence of the sensitivity factor. Differences were shown between the two detectors for most of the previous properties. Also, the observed behavior was, to some extent, different from what was reported in the PTW technical specifications. The necessity to characterize each diamond detector individually was addressed.
authors.affiliation: Physics Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and INFN, Rome, Italy. cinzia.deangelis@iss.it
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Angelis
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Onori
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pacilio
authors.forename: G A P
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Cirrone
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cuttone
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Raffaele
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bucciolini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mazzocchi
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D018130:Diamond; D004583:Electrons; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017785:Photons; D011874:Radiometry; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D018130:Diamond