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BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter September 7, 2017

Comparative investigation of beam quality index Q on flattening filter and flattening filter free 6 and 15 MV photon beams of an medical linear accelerator

  • Michael Schaks EMAIL logo , Johannes Zähle , Martin Janich , Patrick Hübsch , Nico Homonnay and Reinhard Gerlach
From the journal Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2017-0059
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Abstract

An Elekta Synergy LINAC was used to investigate the beam quality index Q and the beam quality correction factor kQ, which is used for absolute dosimetry, in off-axis photon fields. It was found that the beam quality index Q of the photon energies with flattening filter decreases with increasing distance to the central axis, at 6 MV by 4.27% and at 15 MV by 3.98% inside a range of 15 cm off-axis. The beam quality index for flattening filter free photon fields also decreases with increasing distance to the central axis. In this case Q changed only by 1.01% inside the above range.

Keywords: beam quality index; flatting and flattening filter free; off-axis
Published Online: 2017-09-07

©2017 Michael Schaks et al., published by De Gruyter

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