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Collimator leakage - intraleaf and interleaf
1.
Two effects:
• Diffused dose from
spiky interleaf
fluence leakage
8
•
Intraleaf
attenuation
Measuements from
Arnfield
et al
, 2000 Med. Phys.
27
Intraleaf
leakage very small:
0.0408 18.0 8.0
8 cm tungsten
at 3 MeV
e
e
0.28%
t
µ
ρ
ρ
− ⋅
− × ×
→
=