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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

Table 6.

Parameters to model the absorbed dose from the phantom-scattered photons. All parameters are from an iterative fitting procedure from this work.

Symbol Description d=1.5 cm d=10 cm
κFA Constant of proportionality for the double-Gaussian amplitude (mGy·Gy1·mm2·1w·1b) 3.8×10−2
w Exponent defining power law relationship between the amplitude and field area 1.7
b Exponent defining power law relationship between amplitude and depth 1.9
κPS,σ,1 Constant of proportionality for the width parameter of Gaussian 1 (mm·mm1f) 12
f Exponent defining power law relationship between width parameter of Gaussian 1 and field size 3.0
κPS,σ,2 Constant of proportionality for the width parameter of Gaussian 2 (mm·mm1h) 1.1
h Exponent defining power law relationship between width parameter of Gaussian 2 and field area 1.6
C Partitioning factor for the two Gaussians making up the phantom-scatter double-Gaussian 0.59 0.80
αPS,1 Adjustment parameter to the μd of the phantom-scattered photons in Gaussian 1 1.7
αPS,2 Adjustment parameter to the μd of the phantom-scattered photons in Gaussian 2 2.5