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Conformation Therapy Under Computer Control

Synopsis: Aims to acquaint specialists with the value of computer control applied to tracking teletherapy treatment units. Demonstrates, by means of a real clinical example, the complex, three-dimensional application of radiation required to treat a tortuous tumour of large volume. The advantages of computer control are explained in terms of the need to vary and monitor continuously up to ten parameters indicated by these treatment requirements.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 10 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1981
Availability: Hire
Uses: Radiotherapists, oncologists, radiographers, medical physicists and all those in medicine concerned with the treatment of malignant neoplasms. *BMA/BLAT
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: cancer; computer applications; radiotherapy

Credits

Director

J Brace; T Davy

Producer

Writer

D B S Sceggs; J Brace

Cast

Distribution Formats

Type: Film
Format: 16mm

Sponsor

Name: Royal Free Hospital, Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology

Distributor

Name: Royal Free Hospital, Department of Medical Illustration

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