ESTRO course Dose Modelling and Verification 2017

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Lateral dose distributions

max field size at d

and 10 cm depth

max

Beam flatness is normally optimized at 10 cm depth, which means that

there will be “horns” at d

.

max

Siemens 6 MV, 10 cm

Siemens 6 MV, d

max

Siemens 18 MV, 10 cm

Siemens 18 MV, d

max

T Knöös

Warsaw 2017