Late Radiation Damage to Pig Skin
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 130 (3), 783-788
- https://doi.org/10.1148/130.3.783
Abstract
The severity of skin contraction in a previously delimited treatment field was used as a measure of late radiation damage to pig skin. Total treatment doses were given as 6, 14 and 30 fractions over 39 days or as 6 fractions over 18 days. Iso-effect curves for severe linear field contraction showed that no simple mathematical formula could be used to calculate safe tolerance doses when fractionation regimes were modified. For a given level of acute damage, late damage probably was increased by changing from 5 to 2 fractions/wk. These findings are similar to those obtained from surveys in man.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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