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Learning objectives
• To understand the basic concept of pencil kernel based dose
calculations.
• To know how photon pencil kernels can be characterized for a
given photon beam.
• To learn about different ways to parameterize and
summarize/integrate pencil kernels in order to enable efficient
dose calculations.
• To understand the most important approximations and limitations
that are associated with pencil kernel dose calculations.