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Today, only little used electromagnetic radiation with an average wavelength of 0.2 nm and a tissue half depth of only 0.5 mm. X-ray equipment with an anode voltage of 8-17 kV and a beryllium window is needed to generate it. Boundary rays reduce the number of Langerhans cells in the epidermis.
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Pigment shifts. At a lifetime maximum dose of 100 Gy per treated skin zone, the risk of carcinoma is negligible.
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- Lindelöf B (1989) Frontier radiotherapy. Dermatologist 40: 4-7
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer