Occurrence and mechanism of visual phosphenes in external photon beam radiation therapy and how to influence them.
CONCLUSIONS: We postulate that one should reduce the dose rate, instruct patients to keep the eyes open and increase the illuminance in the treatment room to reduce the probability of experiencing visual phosphenes. We hypothesize that melanopsin is involved in the visual phosphenes and that fatigue of patients might be correlated with the observation of visual phosphenes.
PMID: 30825958 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - Category: Radiology Authors: de Kruijf W, Timmers A, Dekker J, Böing-Messing F, Rozema T Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research