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Lateral variation of beam quality
Double exponential, incl. depth parameterization and lateral beam quality
variations (“off-axis softening”) for flattened beams
Laterally constant kernel:
T Nyholm, et al (2006)
Phys. Med. Biol. 51 4111-4118
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Including lateral beam quality shift:
Olofsson et al (2006)
Med Phys 33
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