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Record W2000605388 · doi:10.1118/1.2244697

Sci‐Sat AM (2) Therapy‐01: A rotational total skin electron irradiation technique using a linear accelerator with a commercially available high dose rate total body electron mode

2006· article· en· W2000605388 on OpenAlexaff
Michael D. Evans, Jan Seuntjens, William Parker, Slobodan Dević, E. Poli, C Freeman, E. B. Podgoršak

Bibliographic record

VenueMedical Physics · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies
Canadian institutionsMcGill University Health Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinear particle acceleratorIonization chamberDosimetryMonitor unitBremsstrahlungIrradiationBeam (structure)BetatronPercentage depth dose curveElectronCathode rayNuclear medicineDose profilePhysicsMaterials scienceIonizationAtomic physicsOpticsNuclear physicsMedicineIon

Abstract

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We have transferred and modernized our 25‐year‐old rotational total skin electron irradiation (RTSEI) technique from a linac (Varian Clinac‐18) with a custom modified beam line to a linac (Varian 21EX) with a commercially available electron mode intended for total skin electron irradiation. The new technique uses a “high dose rate” mode and a “high dose per Monitor Unit” mode in conjunction with a custom‐made flattening filter to produce a uniform beam at an extended SSD of 378 cm. Reference dosimetry for the stationary and rotational electron fields was performed to allow delivery of the prescription dose using the linac's transmission ionization chamber. The accessory tray holds the custom‐made flattening filter and automatically selects the beam energy (6 MeV) and high dose rate (888 MU/min) while moving the collimators to the maximum 40 × 40 cm 2 field size. Beam parameters are monitored using the record‐and‐verify (VARIS) system. Patients are treated on a rotating platform with a high dose rate electron beam having a z max at the skin surface, an R 50 at 15 mm and a bremsstrahlung contamination of the order of 3%. The nominal dose rate to water at z max (surface) for the rotational technique was determined to be 24.1 cGy/1000 MU, and beam delivery is monitored with a secondary Farmer‐type ionization chamber located near the patient in the treatment field. Treatment times for a daily dose of 2.0 Gy are of the order of 9.5 minutes and to date we have treated 15 patients with this technique.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.154
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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