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ESTRO IMRT course 2015
Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT
Brussels October 8th, 2015
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What happens in the patient…
elementary physical processes:
photoelectric effect, Compton
effect, pair production
multiple scatterd
photons
primary/secondary
photons
charged particles
deposited
energy
Bremsstrahlung and
annihilation photons
charged particles from
Bremsstrahlung and
annihilation photons
scattered photons
charged particles from
scattered photons
deposited scatter
energy
Bremsstrahlung and
annihilation energy
deposited