TREATMENT OF PRIMARY TUMORS OF BONE AND CARTILAGE BY EXTRACORPOREAL IRRADIATION WITH A LOW-ENERGY HIGH-POWER ELECTRON LINAC

Authors
MONDELAERS W VANLAERE K UYTTENDAELE D
Citation
W. Mondelaers et al., TREATMENT OF PRIMARY TUMORS OF BONE AND CARTILAGE BY EXTRACORPOREAL IRRADIATION WITH A LOW-ENERGY HIGH-POWER ELECTRON LINAC, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 79(1-4), 1993, pp. 898-900
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear","Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Instument & Instrumentation
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms → ACNP
ISSN journal
0168583X
Volume
79
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
898 - 900
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-583X(1993)79:1-4<898:TOPTOB>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
At the Gent University, a promising treatment in bone and cartilage tu mours therapy is applied: resection of the affected specimen, extracor poreal photon irradiation to a dose of 300 Gy, produced with a 15 MeV medium duty factor electron linac, and reimplantation. This radiothera peutical treatment technique is presented, with emphasis on the accele rator related aspects. The design and construction of the high photon dose irradiation set-up and methods for dose homogenisation are descri bed in detail, together with the associated control equipment, irradia tion procedures and some results.