On designing room sheilding for total-body irradiation
Journal Article
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· Health Physics
- Cancer Inst., Jamaica, NY (United States)
When designing shielding for total-body irradiation as an additional modality of treatment in an ordinary radiation therapy room, the extended treatment distance used for these patients greatly increases the workload because of the inverse-square factor. In a seeming contradiction to logic, for a facility with an exterior wall in the path of one lateral primary beam, and a restricted area behind the other primary wall, the overall shielding requirements are lower if the TBI patients are treated with the machine oriented toward the occupied interior. 4 refs.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 283164
- Journal Information:
- Health Physics, Vol. 70, Issue 5; Other Information: PBD: May 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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