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MD, PhD

SRT vs electronic brachytherapy?

Skin Cancer

You. So electronic Brachy therapy, and this is one of the misnomers is superficial radiation therapy. It's just closer to the skin. And actually if you look at some of the older SRT devices, they look exactly the same. There is a close contact SRT device from the 1950s that looks exactly the same in terms of the schematic as electronic Reiki therapy. It's just a question of how close it is to the skin. So SRT has much more flexibility in terms of the 50 to 100 kv whereas the electronic brachial therapy has generally just 50 kv. You can use larger areas with SRT as well from that perspective. So again, much more flexibility. The x ray source for SRT is something that is permanent versus something in electronic brachy therapy. That is an expensive change that you have to do as often as once a year from that perspective. And right now what has changed dramatically is the codes that are used because they were being used incorrectly have been closed off. So really the codes are for superficial radiation therapy.

SRT vs electronic brachytherapy?

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