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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Dynamic Wedge

A dynamic wedge is created by moving one jaw of the collimator towards the other, which creates the wedged field profile.

One of the advantages of a dynamic wedge over a physical wedge for treatment is that there is no change in beam quality across the field size. (No beam hardening for a dynamic wedge like there is when a physical wedge differentially attenuates the photon beam).

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