tomotherapy

English

Etymology

tomo- +‎ therapy

Noun

tomotherapy (uncountable)

1. (medicine) radiation therapy delivered in "slices" in the manner of tomography
   • 2015, Zhengfei Zhu, Xiaolong Fu, “The radiation techniques of tomotherapy & intensity-modulated radiation therapy applied to lung cancer”, in Translational Lung Cancer Research‎^[1], volume 4, →DOI:

     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.