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Electron Bolus Creation
A user is able to add an electron bolus to their beams to aid in proper distribution of dose.
There are four options for boluses in the electronRT app as defined below:
Optimized Thickness Bolus
Uniform Thickness Bolus
Bolus as a Structure
The user also has the option to instead include a bolus as a separate structure in the structure list. Once the option is chosen the user will be able to find the bolus structure from the drop down structure list and the app will set it as the bolus for this beam.
Fig. 9: selecting from the structure list
Fig. 10: selecting a Bolus as a structure
Once the structure is selected the bolus will be added to this beam and dose re-calculated as expected.
Note: The bolus is displayed in the BEV for this beam even though the “Electron Bolus” structure is hidden through the right hand side controls. This shows that the displayed bolus is added as a bolus on this beam and not appearing as a structure.
If you with to import a bolus that is not currently in your structure list please refer to the DICOM Patient Import section of the user guide for how to re-import a structure set.