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MEDICAL physics is rapidly expanding into an important and well-defined branch of applied physics. At the present stage of development much information is becoming available for everyday use in hospitals, but the information is scattered through a number of journals and sometimes difficult of access. Of particular importance is the distribution of radiation throughout the soft tissues of a patient during irradiation with high-voltage X-rays or gamma rays. This distribution of radiation is a complex function of the physical conditions, and recently Prof. W. V. Mayneord published a set of X-ray isodose curves giving data of direct practical application. At a meeting of the Hospital Physicists' Association it was suggested that this idea might be applied to teleradium isodose curves, and to other data. It was thought that often graphs and diagrams which appear in the literature were too small to be useful, and that many workers would like to have full-size copies of the originals. In addition, various institutions accumulate diagrams, nomograms, and data for their own use, which would be very useful to others if an interchange of copies could be arranged.
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Exchange of Diagrams and Data between Radiotherapy Centres. Nature 155, 508 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155508e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155508e0