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Dose distributions arising from the use of near unit density retracted missing tissue compensators in symmetric geometries have been successfully modeled on the basis of primary and first-order scattered radiation. This method of analysis has been extended to both low- and high-density materials in asymmetric geometries. Good agreement is achieved between theory and experiment.
A commercial system for producing retracted compensators has been adapted to suit local needs, and is evaluated here. It comprises a magnetic field surface digitizer and computer-driven milling machine. Improvements in dose distributions, resulting in standard deviations of the mean dose between 2% and 3%, have been achieved for treatment fields in wax phantoms simulating the head and neck regions. Optimization of compensator shape to allow for changes in the amount of scattered radiation has resulted in a further improvement in dose uniformity, particularly near the field borders; for these compensators the standard deviation was as low as 1.6%. The system using the basic algorithm has been in clinical use since July.
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