Phantom development for daily checks in electron intraoperative radiotherapy with a mobile linac

Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is currently applied to a wide variety of specific diseases in exclusive mode or combined with external radiotherapy, becoming a relevant option within the modalities of the state of the art in radiotherapy [1 –9]. For example, it is suitable for the treatment of several malignancies [2,10] such us: central nervous system, head and neck, breast, lung, gastric, pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder, colorectal, retroperitoneal, extremity and trunk soft-tissue, bone, gynaecologic, genitourinary and paediatrics .
Source: Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Original paper Source Type: research