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Wedge induced head scatter
Warsaw 2017
46
Zhu
et al
[9]
A physical wedge acts as a scatter source. For external wedges, i.e.
located below the collimators, the wedge scatter will result in
increased doses outside the beam edges.
VW45=45 deg Virtual wedge
PW45=45 deg Physical wedge
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