Peripheral dose distributions for a linear accelerator equipped with a secondary multileaf collimator and universal wedge
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Peripheral dose distributions for a linear accelerator equipped with a secondary multileaf collimator and universal wedge
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 36 (AAPM TG-36) data can be used to estimate peripheral dose (PD) distributions outside the primary radiation field. However, the report data does not apply to linear accelerators equipped with a multileaf collimator (MLC) and universal wedge (UW). Tertiary multileaf collimators have been shown to significantly affect PD distribution...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1526-9914
DOI: 10.1120/1.1507921