What happens in the patient…
elementary physical processes:
photoelectric effect, Compton
effect, pair production
multiple scatterd
photons
primary/secondary
photons
charged particles
deposited
scattered photons
charged particles from
scattered photons
ESTRO IMRT course 2016
Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT
London April 7th, 2016
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energy
Bremsstrahlung and
annihilation photons
charged particles from
Bremsstrahlung and
annihilation photons
deposited scatter
energy
Bremsstrahlung and
annihilation energy
deposited