IMRT Course 2016

What happens in the patient…

elementary physical processes:

photoelectric effect, Compton effect, pair production

primary/secondary photons

charged particles

scattered photons

multiple scatterd photons

charged particles from scattered photons

deposited

energy

Bremsstrahlung and annihilation photons

deposited scatter energy

charged particles from Bremsstrahlung and annihilation photons

Bremsstrahlung and annihilation energy deposited

ESTRO IMRT course 2016 Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT London April 7th, 2016

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