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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Aug 2;79(2):616–622. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.03.051
FSphys The cumulative physical dose distribution, i.e. corrected for RBE only and not for the biological effect of varying dose per fraction.
FSall This fractionation schedule assumes that all fields in the entire treatment plan are delivered every day. It therefore consists of only a single unique treatment fraction. Cumulative dose distributions are corrected for RBE and the dose-per-fraction.
FSclin The exact clinical representation of the delivered treatment plan as obtained from our record and verify system, i.e. using a subset of treatment fields each day. Cumulative dose distributions are corrected for RBE and the dose-per-fraction.
FSsingle This fractionation schedule assumed that only a single proton field, or a single patch combination, was used each treatment day. The number of unique treatment fractions therefore equaled the number of unique fields (and patch combinations). Cumulative dose distributions are corrected for RBE and the dose-per-fraction.