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    The physicists at the facility have calibrated their linear accelerators using a series of tests outlined in the TG-51 protocol, which can be used to set up either SAD or SSD dose calculations for photon beams above Co-60 energy and electron beams between 4-50 MeV. For OHCI, the reference conditions are 1 MU equals 1 cGy at a depth of dmax for a 10x10 field or applicator at 100 SSD, which is not actually 1 cGy at isocenter due to inverse square law corrections needed for calculations at the isocenter depth.

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    The physicists at the facility have calibrated their linear accelerators using a series of tests outlined in the TG-51 protocol, which can be used to set up either SAD or SSD dose calculations for photon beams above Co-60 energy and electron beams between 4-50 MeV. For OHCI, the reference conditions are 1 MU equals 1 cGy at a depth of dmax for a 10x10 field or applicator at 100 SSD, which is not actually 1 cGy at isocenter due to inverse square law corrections needed for calculations at the isocenter depth.

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    The physicists at the facility have calibrated their linear accelerators using a series of tests outlined in the TG-51 protocol, which can be used to set up either SAD or SSD dose calculations for photon beams above Co-60 energy and electron beams between 4-50 MeV. For OHCI, the reference conditions are 1 MU equals 1 cGy at a depth of dmax for a 10x10 field or applicator at 100 SSD, which is not actually 1 cGy at isocenter due to inverse square law corrections needed for calculations at the isocenter depth.

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    Knowing how your linear accelerator is calibrated is a critical part to performing proper
    MU calculations. Describe how the physicists at your facility have calibrated their
    accelerators. What are the reference conditions they have set up? For example, is it
    calibrated SAD or SSD, what depth, what field size, what is the dose per MU?
    This is the list of tests performed at my center:

    These tests are usually split over several days. The TG-51 protocol above can be used to set up
    either SAD or SSD calculations. TG-51 is only for Co-60 and higher photon energy beams, and
    electrons from 4-50 MeV.
    For OHCI the physicists use 1 MU = 1 cGy at central axis and at a depth of dmax, for a 10x10
    field (x-rays) or 10x10 applicator (electrons) at 100 SSD. More importantly this is not 1 cGy at
    isocenter, it’s 1 cGy at 100 cm plus whatever depth dmax is. If an MU calc were to be done by
    hand for iso, a correction using the inverse square factor would need to be done.

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