Physics Bucharest 2017

KERNEL TILTING AND HARDENING • Both pencil beam and convolution algorithms • Divergence • Depth and off-axis spectral changes

Liu et al. Correcting kernel tilting and hardening in convolution/superposition dose calculations for clinical divergent and polychromatic photon beams. Med. Phys. 24:1729-1741 (1997). Slide from Dr. James Bedford ESTRO physics course, June 2017