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Energy
fluence
concepts:
“Pencil” beam of photons
Water phantom
“pencil” beam = point monodirectional beam
Pencil kernel
= dose pattern
caused by a pencil beam (per
amount of radiation)
Pencil kernel
Dose calculation
View the incident photon fluence as
composed (i.e. a sum) of pencil beams
Summing pencil kernels in the same way
gives dose