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Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy (IORT) [1] is an innovative cancer treatment technique which consists in delivering during a surgical operation a radiation dose on the order of 10-20 Gy to a tumor bed or to a tumor residual after the resection. In this way it is possible to destroy the residual malignant cells. IORT is generally performed by means of electron beams produced by linear accelerators (linacs) in the range 3-12 MeV.
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Rosetti, M., Benassi, M., Bruzzaniti, V., Bufacchi, A., D’Andrea, M. (2001). Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy Optimization Using the Monte Carlo Method. In: Kling, A., Baräo, F.J.C., Nakagawa, M., Távora, L., Vaz, P. (eds) Advanced Monte Carlo for Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18211-2_72
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