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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiother Oncol. 2020 Oct 8;153:122–129. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.057

Table 3.

The absolute percent relative error (%RE) for the predicted profiles for all different combination of input and output data combinations. The mean absolute %RE shows for both the whole profile as well as within the central 80% of the profile based on the size of the predicted field.

Absolute %RE
Full profile
80% of field size
Energy Input Field Size Output field size Mean* Max Mean* Max
6 MV WFF 10×10 30×30 0.87 ± 0.79 3.76 0.14 ± 0.16 0.61
30×30 10×10 1.33 ± 1.11 4.90 0.09 ± 0.05 0.18

10 MV WFF 10×10 30×30 0.66 ± 0.38 1.68 0.08 ± 0.04 0.16
30×30 10×10 1.03 ± 0.81 4.05 0.11 ± 0.09 0.31

15 MV WFF 10×10 30×30 0.71 ± 0.36 1.60 0.11 ± 0.08 0.35
30×30 10×10 1.22 ± 1.02 3.98 0.13 ± 0.13 0.56

6 MV FFF 10×10 30×30 0.79 ± 0.52 2.25 0.17 ± 0.14 0.43
30×30 10×10 1.20 ± 0.78 3.90 0.13 ± 0.14 0.6

10 MV FFF 10×10 30×30 0.93 ± 0.45 1.79 0.14 ± 0.14 0.52
30×30 10×10 0.82 ± 0.42 1.54 0.04 ± 0.03 0.14

Note: WFF = With flattening filter, FFF = Flattening filter free.

*

Data are shown as means± standard deviations.