METHOD OF TOTAL IRRADIATION OF PATIENT'S BODY SURFACE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61N5/10 G21K1/04 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method relates to medicine, namely to radiology and can be applied in radiotherapy of oncologic patients. Patient is laid under vertical beam of source of electrons. Energy of beam of electrons is selected. Patient is covered with elastic fabric-equivalent material. After that diaphragms are moved apart for bremsstrahlung at the distance determined by formula L=0.9 × A × DES/DSP, where A is desired size of irradiation, cm; DES - distance electron source-diaphragm, cm; DSP is distance from electron source to patient's skin, cm; 0.9 is numerical coefficient. Irradiation is performed in required dose. After that, patient is moved along their vertical axis for distance A and irradiation is repeated.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to carry out total irradiation of patient's body surface and increases uniformity of irradiation with beam of electrons, as well as reduces time for pre-radiological preparation and irradiation due to application during irradiation of diaphragms for bremsstrahlung field formation.