Percentage depth dose curve
- Percentage depth dose curve
In Radiotherapy, one of the dosimetry processes involves characterising the clinical radiation beam by measurement of the variation of dose with depth (z) in a water phantom, for all energies and field sizes.
Dose is then normalised to dmax (the depth of dose maximum) and a plot of relative dose versus depth in the phantom is produced.
ee also
*Dosimetry
*Dose Profile
References
* [1] "Radiation Therapy Physics", Hendee W., Ibbott G. and Hendee E. (2005) Wiley-Liss Publ., ISBN 0-471-39493-9
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