Build-up material requirements in clinical dosimetry during total body irradiation treatments

Total body irradiation (TBI) treatments are mainly used in a preparative regimen for hematopoietic stem cell (or bone marrow) transplantation. Our standard clinical regimen is a 12 Gy/6 fraction bi-daily technique using 6MV X-rays at a large extended source to surface distance (SSD). This work inves...

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Main Authors: Martin Butson, Dane Pope, Mamoon Haque, Tom Chen, Guangli Song, May Whitaker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Medical Physics
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Online Access:http://www.jmp.org.in/article.asp?issn=0971-6203;year=2016;volume=41;issue=2;spage=149;epage=152;aulast=Butson