Photon-beam radiotherapy in pregnant patients: Can the fetal dose be limited to 10cGy or less?

Physica Medica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 85-91

  Kourinou, Kalliopi M ^a   Mazonakis, Michalis ^a   Lyraraki, Efrossyni ^b   Damilakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fetal dose; Pregnancy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HODGKIN DISEASE; IMAGING PHANTOM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PHOTON THERAPY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIATION SHIELD; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIMULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; NEOPLASMS; PHOTON; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; THERAPEUTIC USE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 84925188131     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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