title: Total body irradiation: a specialised unit.
abstract: At the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton a specialised unit has been designed for patients requiring total body irradiation (TBI). Total body irradiation requires a single fraction of 10.50 Gy maximum to the midplane of the lungs delivered at a dose rate of approximately 0.05 Gy/minute. The treatment time is four to five hours. The technique has been tailored to achieve a uniform whole body dose, taking into consideration inhomogeneities of the body such as undulating body contours and varying tissue separations and densities.
authors.affiliation: Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Ball
mesh_terms: D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation