title: [Method for radiographic determination of body contours (author's transl)].
abstract: After a brief description of some methods used for the determination of body contour in radiotherapy, the authors present a method which using the double radiographic exposition, allows such a determination with precision and without having need of expensive equipments. They present the graphic results of the tests done on phantom and in vivo, comparing these ones with the measures obtained by CT, performed in purpose of diagnosis. For a rapid execution of the method, they list the passages to follow for its application.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008961:Models, Structural; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Metodo di rilevazione radiografica del profilo di sezione corporea.