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Tarek Shouman1, Zeinab El-Taher
1The Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University. thshouman@yahoo.com
Objective:
Development of a technique for treating whole-body skin using linear accelerator with electron beam energy of 6-MeV at a short treatment distance.
Material And Methods:
The 6 MeV high dose rate total skin electron irradiation mode on a linear accelerator was used. Beam profiles and percentage depth doses in the patient plane were measured for different beam angulations.
Results:
At a treatment distance (SSD) of 292 cm and using acrylic scatterer-degrader 4mm thick, the beam penetration was calculated so that the 80% dose lied at 1.6 cm for the single beam and only 6 mm for the clinical beam. A uniform vertical profile was obtained by using 3 beams for each treatment position with gantry angles of 700, 900 and 1100.
Conclusions:
We could implement a modified stanford technique for total skin electron beam irradiation at a short treatment distance. Using an acrylic scatterer-degrader and three beam angulations we could produce a uniform beam in the treatment plane.
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