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Vintage style: direct use of dose profiles &

output factors

• Dose profiles reshaped using factors

deduced from first order, point source

fluence changes

• Workhorse in old time “2D” TPS and

some Monitor Unit Check programs

• OK for a limited set of field geometries

at non-violated equilibrium conditions,

e.g. stereotactical treatments

Breaks down for general

CRT/IMRT/VMAT conditions!