Whole Body Superficial Irradiation with Strontium 90 Beta Rays. A Report of Cases Treated with a Moving Couch Technique

1 July 1960

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Radiology

Vol. 33 (391) , 440-446
https://doi.org/10.1259/0007-1285-33-391-440

Abstract

A moving couch technique for giving whole-body surface irradiation with Sr90 [beta]-rays is described. Details of the first cases treated by this method are presented, together with some considerations on dosimetry.

Keywords

MYOCOSIS FUNTOIDES/RADIOTHERAPY
SARCOMA, RETICULUM CELL/RADIOTHERAPY
SKIN NEOPLASMS/RADIOTHERAPY
STRONTIUM/RADIOACTIVE

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A 10 Curie Strontium 90 Beta-ray Therapy Unit
The British Journal of Radiology, 1960