Tomotherapy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    radiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From tomo- + therapy.

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