Speaker
Trịnh Thị Minh Anh .
Description
Skin-care cream is commonly applied to relieve skin redness in radiotherapy. However, using cream on the patient under the photon field would increase the skin dose in delivery. The aim of this study is to evaluate the dependences of skin dose enhancement on different beam and cream variables using Monte Carlo simulation. The dose enhancement factor (DEF) defined as the ratio of the skin dose with skin-care cream to the skin dose without cream was calculated. It is found that the FF photon beam had higher DEF value than the FFF.
