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100

The number 100 or 1 is for the PDD at what depth.

What is the depth of dmax

100

Wedge Factor is this?

The dose with a wedge/the dose without a wedge

100

1 cm is the dmax

What is 4MV?

100

This substance is used to describe the quality of the beam.

What is HVL/HVT?

100

A  right triangle that is 3, 4, 5 cm

What is 6 cm2?

200

The number/percentage of PDD gets smaller.

What happens to PDD the deeper it is calculated in the patient?

200

This equation has two formulas that are.

What is magnification factor? What is image/Object size or the SID/SOD?

200

The factor of  ___ is used when the SSD changed from 4cm to 8cm.

What is 1/4th?  What is .25?

200

In a fixed SSD technique, the dose is routinely normalized:

What is dmax?

200

The box is 6 in long and 1 feet wide.

What is 12 in2 or .5 ft2?

300

Decreasing the energy, field size and distance does this to PDD.

What is decrease PDD?

300

The equation will always be greater than 1.

What is magnification factor?

300

The SSD read 98.5 cm.

What is the SSD of a SAD treatment at 6MV?

300

A patient's spine is being treated and the gantry angle is at 160 degrees. The SAD is 

What is 100cm?

300

This pie 20 cm wide straight down the middle.

What is 314 cm2?

400

Higher energies has this effect on PDD

What is increases?

400

The Mayenord's factor formula is 

What is (SSD2 +dmax)^2(SSD1 + d)^2/(SSD2 +d)^2(SSD1 + dmax)^2

400

Lower energies does this to BSF.

What is decreases?

400

The gantry is treating 180 degrees, rotating CCW. The starting angle is 90 and the final angle is 

What is 270?

400

The adjusted dose has the .9 tray factor is applied to 80 cGy.

What is 72cGy?

500

The absorbed dose at a depth divided by the absorbed dose at dmax.

What is the definition of PPD?

500

The inverse factor is expressed as 

What is (SSD1)^2/(SSD2)^2

500

3 cm

What is the dmax for a 12MV beam?

500

Keeping the same order, the Y, X and Z axis is also referenced by

What is long, lat and vert.

500

The dmax depth for a patient treated with parallel opposed fields weighted 3:1 for a brain with a 6MV linac.  The right field size is 8 x 8 cm and the left side is 10 x 10 cm.  The cGy/MU for a 10 x 10 cm field is 1 and the area correction factor for the 8 x 8 cm field is .95.  The patient is recieving 10 treatments and the total dose is 18GY.

What is 1.5 cm?

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