Flashes of light-radiation therapy to the brain

Deborah T. Blumenthal; Benjamin W. Corn; Natan Shtraus

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2015.07.034

Flashes of light-radiation therapy to the brain

Deborah T. Blumenthal^*, Benjamin W. Corn, Natan Shtraus

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Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

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Abstract

We present a series of three patients who received therapeutic external beam radiation to the brain and experienced a phenomenon of the sensation of flashes of bright or blue light, simultaneous with radiation delivery. We relate this benign phenomenon to low-dose exposure to the eye fields and postulate that the occurrence is underreported in this treated population.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	331-333
Number of pages	3
Journal	Radiotherapy and Oncology
Volume	116
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radonc.2015.07.034
State	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Brain
Cherenkov
Flash
Light
Radiation
Tumor

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