tomotherapy

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English

Etymology

From tomo- +‎ therapy.

Noun

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tomotherapy (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) radiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography
    • 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:
      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.