INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIATION UNITS AND MEASUREMENTS, Prescribing, Recording and Reporting Photon Beam Therapy (Supplement to ICRU Report No. 50), ICRU Report No. 62, ICRU, Bethesda, MD (1999) ...

External beam radiation therapy is the most common type of radiation therapy ... Research shows that prone breast radiation reduces radiation burn on the skin. It also shows this method is very useful ...

medical physics and radiation therapy technology. Radiotherapy can be delivered externally or internally. In external beam radiotherapy, radiation beams originating externally to the patient are ...

A meta-analysis found that patients with early and intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma who received external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) demonstrated better local control and progression ...

It was a radiation therapy machine ... She developed a striped burn pattern on her hip which closely matched the beam blocking strips on the Therac-25. This patient lived, but eventually needed ...