Research Article

The Study of Field Equivalence Determined by the Modeled Percentage Depth Dose in Electron Beam Radiation Therapy

Table 2

The best fitting of the PDD modeled by the main parameters , , and in 5 electron energies at a cone size of .

Electron energy (MeV)

3.1900.001
6.22100.0007
8.92900.0005
12.34000.0003
15.14700.0002

Note: is a scalar of harden factor, is a scalar of the spread factor while is the linear attenuation factor in the unit of mm-1. The is a real number on the horizontal axis in the unit of mm, also denotes the depth in water.