RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENERGY FLUENCE AND ENERGY INCIDENT ON, EMITTED BY OR IMPARTED TO A BODY

From knowledge on the energy and angular distribution of the fluence around a body, the energy incident on, emitted by or imparted to a body can be calculated. The calculation is easily performed if the quantity 'vectorial fluence' is used. Examples taken from the literature are used to illustrate the erroneous results obtained by integrating energy fluence over area instead of integrating the scalar product of vectorial energy fluence and vectorial area.