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Dose per MU formalisms: factor-based dose calculations

• Step 1: account for differences in dose at the calculation point due to changes in energy fluence from the different scatter conditions in the head of the linac

• Step 2: • Step 3:

Isocentric linac reference normalisation geometry

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