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20:48 May 26, 2010
English to French translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Cardiology
English term or phrase: Physical wedge
XXX performed the Pre-Port image acquisition for the current patient with a physical wedge still inserted from the previous patient’s treatment delivery.
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physical wedge
Marqueurs corporels


Explanation:
Physical wedges are made of lead, brass or steel. When placed in a
radiation beam, they cause a progressive decrease in the intensity across the beam and a tilt of isodose curves under normal beam incidence.


    Reference: http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nahu/dmrp/pdf_files/Chapter6.pdf
    Reference: http://www.fondationarcad.org/actions/BrainLAB_ExacTracGATIN...
Sylvie Chartier
Canada
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Evaluating commercially available three-dimensional radiotherapy ...
by WB Harms - 1997 - Cited by 3 - Related articles
Such wedgesinclude standard physical wedges, the motor- ized wedge (single angle wedge, which is automati- cally inserted into the beamfor a .... Some hardware, beyond the basic system, may be required for patient image data acquisition. ... This test should be performed starting with aCT data set of at least forty ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053429697800215 - Similar

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It is also important to recognize that the IMRT factor will in many cases be smaller than the wedge factor that would be required if IMRT was not available. This is because physical wedges are designed to cover a range of field sizes, with the wedge factor being defined by the largest field size to be used. Production of a wedge profile by programmed collimation is equivalent to designing a wedge for each field and, as long as efficiency is one of the design criteria, the IMRT "wedge factor" will be less than the normal wedge factor required for comparable modulation. It is also worth noting that dynamically created wedges and compensators will produce less scattered X-rays and less electron contamination than physical wedges and physical compensators. This contamination radiation is likely to be as big a problem as leakage radiation.

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http://bjr.birjournals.org/cgi/content/full/74/877/98


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Analysis of x-ray computed tomography images using the noise power ...
by K Faulkner - 1984 - Cited by 22 - Related articles
These parameters have been expressed in terms of basic scanning factors such .... Thus if the beam flattening filters (or wedges) are correctly chosen, then the number ..... d'acquisition des donntes, pour en dtduire des expressions du spectre de ... Haque P and Stanley J H 1981 in Radiology of the Skull and Brain. ...
iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/29/11/003/pdf?ejredirect=migration

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TERMIUM Plus® - WEDGE FILTER [1 fiche]
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Source, fiche 1, Observation 1 - wedge filter. OBS – [Le filtre en coin] est utilisé en radiothérapie pour compenser une obliquité de la surface d'entrée ou ...
www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/.../alpha-fra.html?...WEDGE FILTE...

liz askew
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Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  xxxLionel_M: yes for WEDGE: filtre en coin/prisme. But cannot either get unequivocal data for "physical"
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