A technique for pediatric total skin electron irradiation

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bao, Qinan ^a   Hrycushko, Brian A ^a   Dugas, Joseph P ^b,c   Hager, Frederick H ^a   Solberg, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Leukemia cutis; Pediatric total skin electron irradiation; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; FILM DOSIMETER; HARNESS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CUTIS; LUMINANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; ROTATING PLATE; SEDATION; SKIN; TOTAL SKIN ELECTRON THERAPY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; X RAY FILM; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN TUMOR;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; INFANT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 84858411906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-40     Document Type: Article

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