Re: Build-up Cap

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren)]

Try Attix, or Kase.  A buildup cap is used to provide electronic (ie CPE)
equilibrium for high energy photons.

Ron Kathren

>One of the questions on the 1996 Part II ABHP exam asked for the purpose
>of a "build-up cap" on an ion chamber.  I have looked in several texts
>(Cember, Knoll, Price) but cannot find reference to the cap.  Can anyone
>help?
>
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