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An active scanning beam delivery method has many advantages in particle beam applications. For the beam is to be successfully delivered to the target volume by using the active scanning technique, the dose uniformity must be considered and should be at least 2.5% in the case of therapy application. During beam irradiation, many beam parameters affect the 2-dimensional uniformity at the target layer. A basic assumption in the beam irradiation planning stage is that the shape of the beam is symmetric and follows a Gaussian distribution. In this study, a pure Gaussian-shaped beam distribution was distorted by adding parasitic Gaussian distribution. An appropriate uniform scanning condition was deduced by using a quantitative analysis based on the gamma value of the distorted beam and 2-dimensional uniformities.
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Kim, C.H., Jang, S.d. & Yang, TK. Effects of beam irregularity on uniform scanning. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 69, 1053–1056 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.69.1053
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.69.1053