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Mean energies in a 6 MV beam depending

on field size and depth

Incident mean photon

energy = 2.11 MeV

Heydarian

et al

~0.16 MeV (1/10)

~0.7 MeV (1/3)

Two counteracting effects as depth increases: Beam hardening of

primary fluence and increasing amount of scattered photons.

photons

electrons