The rotary dual technique for total skin irradiation in the treatment of mycosis fungoides - A description of the applied method

Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-37

  Piotrowski, Tomasz ^a,b   Malicki, Julian ^a,b  

^a Great Poland Cancer Centre   (Poland)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Mycosis fungoides; Total skin electron irradiation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; OBESITY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION FIELD; REMISSION; SKIN SURFACE; TOTAL SKIN ELECTRON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33845324535     PISSN: 15071367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1507-1367(06)71047-1     Document Type: Article

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