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Term: bolus
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Definition: material usually having approximately the density and effective atomic number of tissue, used in radiotherapy to fill up void spaces, thus delineating the irradiated volume as a simple geometric form; or, placed upon the entry surface of the subject, to bring the point of maximum dose to that surface


Publication date:1983-01
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