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ESTRO IMRT course 2015
Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT
Brussels October 8th, 2015
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Kernel-based methods:
Rectilinear density rescaling of the kernel
Woo and Cunningham 1990
(Med. Phys. 17(2))
Electrons do not move linearly on straight tracks!
Multiple scattering effects not exactly handled
…dotted isodose
lines: ‘exact’ point
kernel dose from
Monte Carlo
calculations