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Small field segments surrounded by large areas only shielded by a multileaf collimator: Comparison of experiments and dose calculation

Tomas Kron, Alessandro Clivio, Eugenio Vanetti, G. Nicolini, Jim Cramb, Peta Lonski, Luca Cozzi, Antonella Fogliata

Medical Physics · 2012 · 37 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

AAA and Acuros XB were found to predict the dose under small MLC defined field segments well. While DLG and focal spot affect mostly the penumbra, the choice of correct MLC transmission will be essential to model treatments such as VMAT accurately.

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