Equal surface dose compensation.
This paper investigates a method of designing and producing an unusual class of compensators. Through use of these compensators one can deliver an even dose to dmax when one is irradiating a sloping contour with a single megavoltage photon field. These compensators are designed not to provide an even dose at midplane in a patient but instead to produce what may conceptually be described as an equal surface dose. (A more accurate but less descriptive term would be equal dmax dose compensator.)
Spicka
J I
JI
St. Joseph Hospital, Flint, MI.
Kim
H S
HS
Oh
D W
DW
Marable
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V
Fleury
K
K
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011882:Radiotherapy, High-Energy / Q000295:instrumentation*