tomotherapy

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noun

radiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography

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Meanings

nountomotherapy (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineradiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography

    This article will review the application of two forms of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), fixed-field IMRT and helical tomotherapy (HT) in lung cancer, including dosimetric and clinical studies.

    2015, Zhengfei Zhu, Xiaolong Fu, “The radiation techniques of tomotherapy & intensity-modulated radiation therapy applied to lung cancer”, in Translational Lung Cancer Research, volume 4, →DOI

Origin

From tomo- + therapy.

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