Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10731332 Physica Medica 2016 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
Irradiating through the components of the positioning device resulted in a considerable degradation of skin sparing. Inclusion of the device components in the treatment planning CT allowed to accurately model the most important attenuation effect, but failed to accurately predict build-up doses.
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