Two types of phantom scatter correction factors for high-energy photons
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 41 (12) , 2635-2641
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/41/12/004
Abstract
Two types of phantom scatter correction factors are introduced for high-energy photons. One is the traditional correction factor. It is produced using the primary absorbed dose under lateral CPE (charged particle equilibrium). It usually takes a non-zero value at zero-area field. The other is produced using the actual primary absorbed dose, which fails in lateral CPE when the field is small. It takes a value of zero at zero-area field. The two types of correction factors can be connected with the laterally spread primary absorbed dose (LSD).Keywords
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