IT>EN Radiology abbreviation DFT

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Check this out as well:

http://www.iss.it/binary/publ/cont/05-47.1141829764.pdf

http://dspace.iss.it/dspace/bitstream/2198/-90843/1/ISSA02_1123-3117_2002_I_02_3\

9.pdf

You could try writing to Antonella Tabocchini at

pubblicazioni@... you never know you

might strike lucky and get a reply, if anyone knows what " DFT " stands

for, she will.

Graham

Dawn Montague wrote:

>

> Thanks, Graham, Philippe. However, I don't see how the abbreviation, if it

> is actually Italian and not a borrowed English acronym, could mean total

> body irradiation - unless, perhaps, that is the same thing as " total

> fractionated dose " - the other thing that has occurred to me is " dose

> frazionata totale " (total fractionated dose), but I haven't been able to

> confirm it.

> If it is borrowed English, there are terms such as " discrete fourier

> transform " , which can be a method of calculating radiation dose, or

> " density

> functional theory " for electronic structure. But I am not a

> radiologist or a

> physicist :-(

>

> Dawn

>

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Philippe Mollard

> <philippemollard@... <mailto:philippemollard%40wanadoo.fr>

> > wrote:

>

> > Proper english is definitely total body irradiation (TBI)

> > Googlize it and see the articles and wiki as well.

> >

> >

> > IT>EN Radiology abbreviation DFT

> > >

> > > Hi all,

> > > I am working on a hospital discharge report for a cancer patient.

> In the

> > > part about the radiation therapy received for her thyroid cancer, it

> > > says: " Eseguita

> > > radioterapia (DFT 12 Gy/3 frazioni) con elettroni accelerati, a 6

> MeV su

> > > cinque sedi toraciche " . I am having trouble finding a solution for DFT

> > > that

> > > makes sense in the context. Has anyone seen this one before?

> > >

> > > Thanks in advance!

> > >

> > > Dawn Montague

> > >

> > >