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Limitations of TG43 formalism
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Datasets used in the TG-43 are obtained
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in a water phantom
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with a fixed volume (sphere with 30 cm in diameter)
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This means that the TG43 formalism does NOT
account for
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different density of in the irradiated tissue
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the lack of scatter material if the implant is located
close to the skin surface