Center Dose

This test measures the dose in CU in the center of the image. The measurement is obtained by defining a 5 mm (configurable as CenterDoseRadius_mm) radius circle in the isoplane and calculating the average CU of the pixels within that circle, as shown below:


Center dose taken by defining a 5 mm radius circle in the center of an FFF image.

error = measured - expected

The center of the circle is defined with the coordinates obtained by Collimator Centering . Because a circle is being mapped onto a rectangular grid of pixels, sub-pixel variations in collimator centering can change which pixels are considered within the circle.

A pixel is considered to be inside the circle if the center of the pixel is equal to or less than the configured radius.