Local shielding of high dose rate brachytherapy in an operating theatre.
A high-dose rate brachytherapy facility was installed into an established operating theatre by using local shielding in the form of mobile lead screens and by taking advantage of the ease with which staff movements can be controlled in an operating suite. This facility was inexpensive to develop, and has proved clinically efficient and entirely adequate from a radiation safety standpoint.
Sephton
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Physical Sciences Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia. rsephton@petermac.unimelb.edu.au
Das
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Coles
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Toye
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Pinder
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D001918:Brachytherapy; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D009873:Operating Rooms; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage