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Peripheral dose in a 6 MV beam determined with Monte Carlo calculations

Peripheral dose

6 MV, 3.75 cm depth, 10x10 cm

2

distance from

Dose

Peripheral dose

Peripheral dose

Bednarz and Xu, 2009

field edge

[% of isocenter dose]

5 cm

1.5 %

10 cm

0.5 %

20 cm

0.3 %

40 cm

0.05 %

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