Patent ID: 8053736

Claim:
Method for detector response correction, comprising the steps of: obtaining a measure of an absorbed dose from a radiation dosimeter exposed to an ionizing radiation; retrieving precalculated fluence pencil kernels from a data storage; said precalculated fluence pencil kernels describe fluence response spectra for a point in a medium irradiated by a point monodirectional beam of a specific energy in a surrounding of said beam, per incident amount of radiation; integrating said retrieved precalculated fluence pencil kernels over an incident fluence of said ionizing radiation into a total fluence spectra; said total fluence spectra comprising fluence spectra for primary radiation as well as fluence spectra for scattered radiation; determining a correction factor for said radiation dosimeter based on a local said total fluence spectra at said point and a medium of said radiation dosimeter; and correcting said measure of said absorbed dose by said correction factor into an equivalent dose as if said radiation dosimeter would have been made by a different medium.