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The effect on scattered neutron dose equivalent to the fetus of changing the incident proton beam energy, aperture size, beam location, and air gap between the beam delivery snout and skin was studied for both a small field snout and a large field snout. Measurements of the fetus scattered neutron dose equivalent were made by placing a neutron bubble detector <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/mp7147-math-0001.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:0094-2405:media:mp7147:mp7147-math-0001\"\/> below the umbilicus of an anthropomorphic <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/mp7147-math-0002.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:0094-2405:media:mp7147:mp7147-math-0002\"\/> phantom enhanced by a wax bolus to simulate a second trimester pregnancy. The neutron dose equivalent in milliSieverts (mSv) per proton treatment Gray increased with incident proton energy and decreased with aperture size, distance of the fetus representative point from the field edge, and increasing air gap. Neutron dose equivalent to the fetus varied from 0.025 to <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/mp7147-math-0003.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:0094-2405:media:mp7147:mp7147-math-0003\"\/> per proton Gray for the small field snout and from 0.097 to <jats:inline-graphic xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"graphic\/mp7147-math-0004.png\" xlink:title=\"urn:x-wiley:0094-2405:media:mp7147:mp7147-math-0004\"\/> per proton Gray for the large field snout. 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