Eye shielding for patients treated with total body irradiation

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 73-78

  Reft, Chester ^a,b   Rash, Carla ^a   Dabrowski, Jolanta ^a   Roeske, John C ^a   Hallahan, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataracts; Interface dosimetry; Shielding; Thermoluminescent detectors; Total body irradiation

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CATARACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORBIT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; AVIATION; CATARACT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEAD; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORBIT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0030158299     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0958-3947(95)02050-0     Document Type: Article

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