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Gunilla Bentel Papers
Gunilla Bentel, R.N., R.T.T., was a renowned author and clinician at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Gunilla was the Chief Dosimetrist and Clinical Associate in the Department of Radiation Oncology/Physics Division. Gunilla was a true pioneer in the use of immobilization devices for external beam radiation therapy patients. Ms. Bentel spent several decades ...
March 18, 2011
PATIENT POSITIONING AND IMMOBILIZATION IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY: SOME CONSIDERATIONS BY Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Durham INTRODUCTION Uncertainties associated with the delivery of a prescribed radiation treatment can be divided into two groups; uncertainties of dose (i.e., in homogeneities, dose calculations, variables in machine output and uncertainties in patient-beam ...
March 18,2011
STABILIZATION DEVICE FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADIATION THERAPY FOR CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Improved imaging modalities, primarily Computerized Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and three-dimensional treatment planning capabilities has resulted in increased confidence in the target localization. This increased confidence, along ...
March 18, 2011
IMMOBILIZATION OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADIATION THERAPY FOR HEAD AND NECK MALIGNANCIES By Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Spatial misalignment of a treatment field can have adverse effects on the outcome of the treatment. Missing part of the target may result in failure to cure and inadvertent irradiation ...
March18, 2011
IMMOBILIZATION DEVICE FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING PROSTATE IRRADIATION By Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Bladder and bowel toxicity associated with prostate irradiation is well documented and methods to reduce the frequency and severity of these toxicities have been studied. Conformal therapy techniques, where treatment fields are designed to ...
March 18, 2011
IMMOBILIZATION DEVICE FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADIATION THERAPY FOR HODGKIN’S DISEASE By Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Hodgkin’s disease is a quite curable disease which strikes approximately 7400 young Americans annually, the majority of them less than 35 years old. This disease, which earlier was considered fatal, is ...
March 18, 2011
IMMOBILIZATION DEVICE FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING CRANIO-SPINAL IRRADIATION Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Cranio-spinal irradiation (CSI) is required in patients with medulloblastoma, and sometimes in patients with lymphoma and leukemia, usually as a preventive mode of therapy. Patients requiring CSI are usually children or young adults since these ...
MARCH 18, 2011
BREAST POSITIONING DEVICE FOR PATIENTS WITH LARGE BREASTS UNDERGOING RADIATION THERAPY Gunilla C. Bentel, RN, RTT Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina INTRODUCTION Several studies have shown that local excision followed by radiation therapy in the management of early stage breast carcinoma yields results that are similar to that of a radical mastectomy.1,4,6,7 An ...