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Phantoms for TPS verification: liquid water

Advantages

Widely used and available

Known composition

Detectors can be placed at any point

inside the phantom

Large enough to characterize the beam

under full scatter conditions

Disadvantages

Not all detectors are waterproof

Not quick and easy to set up

Too large to simulate the dimensions of

a real patient and be used for the

dosimetric verification of a treatment

plan