Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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IS 51 16 . 5Fig. 3. Transverse section throughcervix with equal intensityjeurves of radium and intensities of x-rays. 664 Technique and Statistics in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Uterus and 5, which are about 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cm.distant from the surface of the filter in theline vertical to the center of the longitud-inal axis. The time duration of an applica-tion of 50 mgm. radium element withinwater at isodose 60 to obtain an erythemaor epilation skin dose is about twenty-fourhours, or 1,200 mgm. el. hrs.; at isodose40 it is thirty-six hours, or 1,800 mgm. el.hrs.; at isodose 20 it is seventy-two hours,or 3,600 mgm. el. hrs.; at isodose 10 it isone hundred and forty-four hours, or7,200 mgm. el. hrs.; and at isodose 5 it istwo hundred and eighty-eight hours, or14,400 mgm. el. hrs. If an epilation skin dose of 1,800 mgm. el.hrs. has been applied to the equal intensitycurve 40, then an intensity of 2,00 mgm.el. hrs. is attained at isodose 60; of 900mgm. el. hrs. at isodose 20; of 4

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