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Summary for Skin Brachytherapy
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Challenges due to irregular surface
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Interplay between scatter and shielding effects
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Departure from TG43 calculated dose depends on
shielding and/or presence of air gaps
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Small for PTV with unshielded geometry
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Need further dose recalculation studies of (large)
patient cohorts