ESTRO 2024 - Abstract Book

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Physics - Detectors, dose measurement and phantoms

ESTRO 2024

Conclusion:

Our results demonstrate the need of applying field output correction factors for IBA CC003 for field sizes less than 1 cm, to compensate for volume averaging and perturbations effects.

Keywords: IBA CC003, output factors, correction factors

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