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Dose calculation – AAPM-TG43
The 1D Approximation
The anisotropy factor φ
an
(r) is thus defined as the ratio of the dose rate
at distance r, averaged with respect to solid angle, to the dose rate on the
transverse y-axis (θ = θ
0
= 90
°
) ) at the same distance.