ESTRO course Dose Modelling and Verification 2017

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Leaf design in the width direction

The leaves are thicker at the base in order to follow the divergence of the beam.

No backup collimators in place!

Inter-leaf leakage is minimized through “tongues” and “grooves”.

6 MV photons

Siemens 160 MLC & Elekta Agility

Siemens 160 MLC

Huq et al [5]

T Knöös

Warsaw 2017