This can also allow lower total doses in some such patients.

The total dose of radiation and how it is given.

A higher total dose increases the risk of serious heart damage.

The total dose may be taken once daily or divided into two doses a day.

When this happens, I first increase the total dose.

The total dose given is probably more important than the frequency of dosing.

The same total doses are given by both routes.

Interestingly, the does rate, as well as total dose, can be important.

Kidney damage has also been reported occasionally in patients receiving lower total doses.

The total dose is fractionated (spread out over time) for several important reasons.

The total dose of radiation is significant, usually around 5-7 m Sv.

Daily total dose should not exceed 16 mg (eight capsules).

The same total dose can be delivered in different time periods depending on the X-ray tube current.

The total dose of radiation is divided into several small doses given over several days.

This schedule helps to protect normal tissue by spreading out the total dose of radiation.

This is more likely to happen in elderly people or in people who get a high total dose.

A report of the radiographer's total dose is generated and is kept on file.

The total dose in amoebic liver abscess should not exceed 650 mg.

What's important is the total dose.

Risk for radiation-induced chronic complications is related to the total dose and schedule of radiation therapy.

At one minute, the drug attains a peak concentration of about 60% of the total dose in the brain.

"The risk was raised by sixfold to eightfold for fathers who had received total doses of over 100 millisieverts."

The risk of tardive dyskinesia increases with total dose and thus becomes more likely the longer a person takes Invega.

Patients were warned not to take more than eight tablets in one day, a total dose of 2600 mg paracetamol per day.

A total dose greater than 5000 rads delivered to silicon-based devices in seconds to minutes will cause long-term degradation.