IMRT

Technical background: Typical components of an accelerator head

accelerator head

Dose calculation algorithms…

particle source

model of accelerator head

beam modulators

model for radiation transport in the patient (pencil beam, collapsed cone superposition, Monte Carlo, …)

Patient

ESTRO IMRT course 2015 Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT Brussels October 8th, 2015

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