title: A table of phantom scatter factors of photon beams as a function of the quality index and field size.
abstract: Phantom scatter factors, for square fields of various sizes, have been determined at a fixed reference depth of 10 cm, separately in different institutes, for a large number of linear accelerators under the auspices of the Netherlands Commission on Radiation Dosimetry. The method used for these measurements has been described in a previous paper. The present article describes the conversion of the measured values into a comprehensive and consistent data set, that gives the phantom scatter factor as a function of field size (from 4 cm up to 40 cm) and quality index (from 0.600 up to 0.800).
authors.affiliation: Dr Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Storchi
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: van Gasteren
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017785:Photons; D011786:Quality Control; D011874:Radiometry / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012542:Scattering, Radiation