Abstract
Individually paired physical compensators are used in our centre to improve dose homogeneity for radiotherapy to the whole breast. This technical note describes the further improvements that may be achieved when all possible combinations of individual compensators within the library are considered. A retrospective study of 78 patients using a total of 16 (left-sided) and 14 (right-sided) sets of library compensators was evaluated, and the results expressed in terms of the standard deviation of the differential dose-volume histogram and the dose range within the breast volume. The mean of the standard deviations was 3.17% (uncompensated), 2.16% (paired compensators) and 1.97% (combinations) and the mean homogeneity was 15.3%, 11.8% and 11.1%, respectively.
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