tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: " Novel low-kVp beamlet system for choroidal melanoma"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Radiation Oncology cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " Novel low-kVp beamlet system for choroidal melanoma. | Radiation Oncology BioMed Central Open Access Novel low-kVp beamlet system for choroidal melanoma Carlos Esquivel Jr 1 2 Clifton D Fuller2 3 Robert G Waggener2 3 Adrian Wong3 4 Martin Meltz2 3 Melissa Blough1 2 Tony Y Eng3 and Charles R Thomas Jr5 Address 1Cancer Therapy and Research Center San Antonio TX USA 2Graduate Division of Radiological Sciences Department of Radiology University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio TX USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio TX USA 4Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging University of Texas Health Science at Houston Houston TX USA and 5Department of Radiation Medicine Oregon Health Science University Portland OR USA Email Carlos Esquivel - cesquive@ Clifton D Fuller - fullercd@ Robert G Waggener - waggener@ Adrian Wong - wonga2@ Martin Meltz - meltz@ Melissa Blough - mblough@ Tony Y Eng - eng@ Charles R Thomas - thomasch@ Corresponding author Published II September 2006 Received 26 April 2006 Accepted 11 September 2006 Radiation Oncology 2006 1 36 doi 1748-717X-1-36 This article is available from http content 1 1 36 2006 Esquivel et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Treatment of choroidal melanoma with radiation often involves placement of customized brachytherapy eye-plaques. However the dosimetric properties inherent in sourcebased radiotherapy preclude facile dose optimization to critical ocular structures. Consequently we have constructed a novel system for utilizing small beam low-energy radiation delivery the Beamlet Low-kVp X-ray or .