Verification of Surface Dose for Flattening Filter and Flattening Filter Free Beams in Beam-Matched Medical Linear Accelerators

Abstract

Depending on the doses delivered, the basal skin layer will experience a number of problems ranging from mild (erythema/epilation) to severe (desquamation/necrosis) reactions. According to the ICRP and the ICRU, the skin depth prescribed for realistic dosage measurements is 0.07 cm, which refers to the skin's interface between the epidermis and dermis layers ("Report 24, ICRU" 1976; Venselaar et al., 2001). At the same time, precise doses