Estimation of skin doses for retrofit prototype multileaf collimators designed for telecobalt therapy machine

Conclusions: From the measurements, it can be concluded that there is good skin sparing even at close distance to the MLCs. The skin dose is <50% for SSDs >65 cm. A minimum gap of 5 cm is required to produce acceptable skin dose.

Source: Journal of Medical Physics - February 2, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Akula Roopa Rani Komanduri Ayyangar AR Reddy Ayyalasomayajula Anil Kumar Pal Reddy Yadagiri Reddy Source Type: research