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Table 3 The average percentage of the beam delivery time spent in layer switching, spot switching, spot spill and burst switching from 102 clinical cases

From: Developing an accurate model of spot-scanning treatment delivery time and sequence for a compact superconducting synchrocyclotron proton therapy system

Delivery type

The average percentage of the total predicted time from the in-house model (%)

The average percentage of the total recorded time from the log file (%)

Layer switching

22.12

23.19

Spot switching

49.31

47.33

Spot spill

11.35

11.31

Burst switching

17.20

18.17