Fetal dose from radiotherapy with photon beams: Report of AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 36

Medical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 63-82

  Shalek, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c Oakmore Medical Physics ^*  (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

fetus; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIATION SHIELDING;

BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS; CANCER INDUCTION; FETUS; GENETIC DEFECTS; GROWTH RETARDATION; MEDICAL PHYSICISTS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PHOTON BEAMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COBALT THERAPY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS RISK; GAMMA RADIATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MENTAL RETARDATION MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIATION STERILIZATION; X RAY;

EID: 0028850911     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597525     Document Type: Article

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