title: Review of the results of the in vivo dosimetry during total skin electron beam therapy.
abstract: This work reviews results of in vivo dosimetry (IVD) for total skin electron beam (TSEB) therapy, focusing on new methods, data emerged within 2012. All quoted data are based on a careful review of the literature reporting IVD results for patients treated by means of TSEB therapy. Many of the reviewed papers refer mainly to now old studies and/or old guidelines and recommendations (by IAEA, AAPM and EORTC), because (due to intrinsic rareness of TSEB-treated pathologies) only a limited number of works and reports with a large set of numerical data and proper statistical analysis is up-to-day available in scientific literature. Nonetheless, a general summary of the results obtained by the now numerous IVD techniques available is reported; innovative devices and methods, together with areas of possible further and possibly multicenter investigations for TSEB therapies are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Az. Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Az. Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gottardi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Az. Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ceroni
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Az. Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy.
authors.forename: Tiziana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Costi
keywords: In vivo dosimetry; Systematic review; Total skin electron beam therapy