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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2015 Jun 4;60(12):4753–4775. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/12/4753

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Illustration of the black body collimation of primary photon fluence. Schematic diagram showing the effect of black body absorption by the secondary collimator on the primary photon fluence as well as the distances involved in determining the mean location and width parameter of the cumulative normal corresponding to the Gaussian located on the CAX by way of similar triangles. (Not to scale)