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Proton dose perturbations caused by high‐voltage leads from implanted cardioverter defibrillators

An increasing number of patients undergoing proton radiotherapy have cardiac implantable electrical devices (CIEDs). We recently encountered a situation in which a high‐voltage coil on a lead from an implanted cardiac defibrillator was located within the clinical treatment volume for a patient recei...

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Autores principales: Wootton, Landon S., Polf, Jerimy C., Peterson, Stephen, Wilkinson, Jeff, Rozner, Marc A., Balter, Peter A., Beddar, Sam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22766952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v13i4.3813