Practice Problems Week 2

In the following questions, the questions are meant to be SSD-only calculations.

1. If the cGy/mu is 1.000 at 100 cm SSD and 1.5cm depth, what is the cGy/mu at 200cm SSD and
1.5cm depth?
2. What is the incident dose if a 20 x 20 cm 60Co beam with an SSD of 80cm, delivering 200cGy to
a depth of 10.5cm (%DD = 59%)?
3. If the output for a 35 x 35 cm 6MV beam at 100 SSD is 1.036 cGy/mu, what is the output at a 10
cm depth (DD = .722)?
4. If the field size factor for a given cone is 1.02 cGy/mu, what is the mu setting to deliver 250 cGy
to the 90% treatment depth at 100cm SSD (assume Ccal = 1.000cGy/mu)?
5. The same problem as #4, except the field will be treated at 105cm SSD. The effective SSD is
90cm and Dmax is 2cm, what is the MU setting?
6. For an SSD treatment with 4MV x-ray beam, the mu setting for a tumor dose of 200 cGy at 5 cm
depth with a 10 x 10 field is (%DD = 83.5%, RFF = 1.000) (RFF is reference field size factor
same as Sc and Sp or area factor just different terminology):
a. a. 250

b. 240

c. 230

d. 220

e. 210

7. A patients treatment time is calculated for 80 cm SSD, for a dose to dmax on a 60Co unit of 100
cGy. The ODI is faulty and the patient is actually set-up at 78 cm SSD. What is the actual dose at
dmax?
8. 6MV 2500 Linear Accelerator. Calculate the number of MUs to deliver 180cGy to a depth of 10
cm for a 10 x 10 cm field at 100 cm SSD (%DD = 67.4%, Sp = 1.000, Sc = 1.000, dmax = 1.6cm
1cGy/mu, SAD factor = 1.000): (Why the SAD factor? Its a trick. Only use what you need.
You need to get familiar with seeing a problem like this and knowing what to use for problem
solving.)
9. Calculate the number of MU to deliver 200 cGy of 9 MeV electrons to dmax (2.0cm) for a 15 x
15 cone at 110 cm SSD. 1cGy/mu. %DD = 100%. 15 x 15 output = 0.935. Use effective SSD of
88cm.
Calculate the gap factor =
Calculate the MU setting =
10. The %DD for 15 x 15 field size, 10 cm depth, 80 cm SSD is 58.4% (60Co). Find the %DD for the
same field size and depth for 100 cm SSD.

11. If the dose rate in free space at a distance of 80.5 cm is 122.2 cGy/min, what would be the dose
rate in free space at 100.5 cm?
b. a. 190.5 cGy/min
cGy/min

b. 152.6 cGy/min

c. 78.4 cGy/min

d. 97.9

12. If the dose rate in free space at a distance of 100cm is 200cGy/min, how far do I need to be from
the source so the dose rate does not exceed 10cGy/min?
13. For an SSD treatment with a 6MV x-ray beam, what is the MU setting to deliver 300cGy at the
98% isodose line for a 15x15 field size at 10cm depth? (PDD(10)=70%, Sc=1.03, Sp=1.026,
Dmax=1cGy/MU @ 100cm SSD)?
14. In regards to question #13: What is the given dose (dose at Dmax)? What is the dose at 20cm
deep? (PDD (20cm) = 40%)?