The clinical application of dynamic shielding and imaging in moving table total body irradiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-224

  Papiez, Lech ^a   Montebello, Joseph ^a   DesRosiers, Colleen ^a   Papiez, Ewa ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic shielding and imaging; Moving table technique; Total body irradiation

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SHIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 0033021886     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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