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Peripheral dose in a 6 MV beam determined with Monte Carlo calculations
Bednarz and Xu, 2009
Peripheral dose
6 MV, 3.75 cm depth, 10x10 cm
2
distance from
field edge
Dose
[% of isocenter dose]
5 cm
1.5 %
10 cm
0.5 %
20 cm
0.3 %
40 cm
0.05 %
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Peripheral dose
Peripheral dose