Radiotherapy treatment planning for patients fitted with prostheses
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Radiology
- Vol. 57 (679) , 603-608
- https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-57-679-603
Abstract
The effects of prostheses on radiotherapy treatment planning are discussed. The compositions of commonly used materials are tabulated. Sample plots show the size of perturbations produced by typical absorbers at 8 MV. A technique for estimating the density of a prosthesis in a patient is demonstrated; the effects of prostheses on representative radiotherapy plans are illustrated.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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