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Tilting cont...
Effects increase with
– tilting angle, i.e.
shorter SSD
larger fields (and off axis segments)
- longer particle range, i.e.
low density regions (lung)
higher energies
50 cm SSD
100 cm SSD
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Sharpe & Battista 1993 MedPhys 20 pp 1685-94