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tomotherapy

tomotherapy noun: radiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography.

Noun

tomotherapy (uncountable)

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

Origin of tomotherapy

From tomo- + therapy.

Questions about tomotherapy

What does tomotherapy mean?
Tomotherapy means radiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography.
What part of speech is tomotherapy?
Tomotherapy is a noun.

Words near tomotherapy in the dictionary

  1. tomosyns
  2. tomosyntheses
  3. tomosynthesis
  4. tomosynthetic
  5. tomosynthetically
  6. tomotherapy
  7. Tomotley
  8. tomoxetine
  9. tomoxiprole
  10. Tomoyoshi
  11. tomoz

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