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USE HANDOUT TABLES FOR THE FOLLOWING CALCULATIONA patient is treated on the 6 MV linear accelerator at 100 cm SSD.  The collimator setting is 13 x 13 cm.  No blocking is used for this treatment.  The prescription states that a dose of 3000 cGy is to be delivered to a depth of 6 cm in 10 fractions.  Calculate the MU setting.

Which of the following is the accepted value for range uncertainty caused by the CT number/HU to stopping power conversion?

Which of the following describes why minizing the Water Equivalent Thickness (WET) is important?

Which of the following is a tool to evauate treatment plan appropriateness?

Dose intents should be documented for OAR’s.  If it is written as “V20

According to the following image, what kind of field arrangement is being used to treat the patient?

How does a wedge change isodose lines?

It is recommended that gestational dose be ________________________.

What type of field arrangement is being depicted in the following image?

One half-value layer thickness in concrete would be __________ one half-value layer thickness in lead for a Cobalt 60 beam.