title: Equal surface dose compensation.
abstract: 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.)
authors.affiliation: St. Joseph Hospital, Flint, MI.
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Spicka
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Marable
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fleury
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011882:Radiotherapy, High-Energy / Q000295:instrumentation*