Advanced Brachytherapy Physics - Vienna 2016

Detection Volume

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• Detection volume if not perfectly cubic • Deviation from expected positions increase with distance (Z) and close to edges (X,Y plane) • ± 1 mm in the first 30 cm • ± 10 mm at 55 cm • Angle < 2% first 30 cm • +8 to -10% at 55 cm

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Boutaleb et al. J Contemp Brachytherapy 7 280–9