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      A SYSTEM POR THE CALCULATION OP DOSE PRODUCED BY EXTERNAL PHOTON BEAMS

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      Date
      1983-05
      Author
      Schroeder, Norman Jed
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      External photon beam therapy is a well established technique in the treatment of cancer. For the safe and effective use of this technique it is essential that the distribution of dose which would be produced by a given photon beam, or combination of photon beams, be known prior to irradiation. This thesis outlines a computer tomography (CT) number based system for calculating such dose distributions using the equivalent tissue-air ratio method. The system is composed of a number of programs which extract patient anatomical data from GE 8800 CT scanner archival tapes, calculate the dose distribution which would result from a given external beam, and display the calculated dose distribution using coloured digital images.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Biomedical Engineering
      Program
      Biomedical Engineering
      Supervisor
      Baillie, A.; Takaya, K.
      Copyright Date
      May 1983
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8054
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