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History
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Teaching course dedicated to Physicists ONLY
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initiated by H. Svensson and A. Dutreix after an ESTRO workshop on
“MU calculation and verification for therapy machines” in 1995 in
Gardone Riviera (Italy) during the 3
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ESTRO biennial physics
The first courses held from 1998
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Mainly on ”Monitor Unit Calculations” which mainly covered factor
based models for dose calculation (ESTRO booklet #3 and #6)
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Since 2002 a much broader physics (“dose determination and
verification”) content was aimed for photon and electron beam physics,
beam modeling and dose calculation algorithms, ...
From 1998 to 2017, the course has been given 19 times (including this week)
and about 1600 physicists have participated so far.
Warsaw 2017
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