Empirical modeling of the percent depth dose for megavoltage photon beams

• Xiao-Jun Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Jun Li, Yan-Cheng Ye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation

  * E-mail: anglweli@qq.com (XJL); jiaming.wu@chmsc.com (JMW)

  Affiliation Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1885-4747

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• Yan-Cheng Ye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Jun Li, Yan-Cheng Ye

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China

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• Yan-Shan Zhang ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ YSZ and JMW authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China

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• Jia-Ming Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anglweli@qq.com (XJL); jiaming.wu@chmsc.com (JMW)

  ¶‡ YSZ and JMW authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Heavy Ion Center of Wuwei Cancer Hospital; Gansu Wuwei Academy of Medical Sciences; Gansu Wuwei Tumor Hospital, Wuwei City, Gansu province, China, Department of Medical Physics, Chengde Medical University, Chengde City, Hebei Province, China, Department of Radiation Oncology, Yee Zen General Hospital, Tao Yuan City, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6533-8780

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