Physics Bucharest 2017

Peripheral dose

Peripheral dose in a 6 MV beam determined with Monte Carlo calculations

Peripheral dose 6 MV, 3.75 cm depth, 10x10 cm 2

distance from field edge

Dose [% of isocenter dose]

5 cm

1.5 % 0.5 % 0.3 %

Peripheral dose

10 cm 20 cm 40 cm

0.05 %

Bednarz and Xu, 2009

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