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Abstract Small field sizes are considered as a big challenge for medical physicists that are concern about researches of dosimetry systems, as new radiotherapy techniques such as Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery, and IMRT associated with small field sizes implementations. As a result of new inventions and new radiotherapy methods, numerous detectors are developed to keep up with investigations in small field sizes dosimetry. Previous investigations for the output factors for these developed detectors encountered difficulties because of non-equilibrium radiation conditions in small field sizes. According to this perspective, we are motivated to measure the output factors of new developed various detectors, which are commonly used in small field sizes dosimetries, and calculate the associated field factors by applying Monte Carlo (MC) correction factors. It worth to be mentioned that all investigations are followed the standards to IAEA TRS483 2016 protocol. Collimator of CK machine is used for all OFmeasurements, for each detector under investigations, by using 800 mm SSD, 15 mm depth, and Tandom water phantom. We observed that the applicability of PTW60019 MicroDiamond (MD) and W1 scintillation detectors are favorable over the others in term of comparison of the accuracy of the associated output factors in small field sizes. The impact of our results will reflect on medical physics researches that are used the new radiotherapy techniques for treating cancer cases. This is extremely important since its main application impacts patient care. |