Inverse Planning - Beam Modeling
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Dosimetric accuracy of the IMRT plan delivery
depends on the accurate representation of
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Beam
Penumbra
– MLC.
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transmission and scattering
properties of MLC
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Output factor for small field size
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Accuracy of dose calculation algorithm
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Approximations of
leaf sequence generation
algorithm.
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Leaf positioning accuracy.