TELETHERAPY PHOTON ENERGY

The prescribed photon energy of a TELETHERAPY TREATMENT COURSE.

National Codes:

1 Superficial (less than 160 kV)
2 Orthovoltage (less than 500 kV)
3 Megavoltage (less than 6 MV)
4 Megavoltage (equal to or greater than 6 MV)
7 Cobalt
8 Other (not Photon or Electron)

Note that TELETHERAPY ELECTRON ENERGY uses codes 5 and 6.

References:
National Cancer Data Set Version1.3_ISB October 2002 

This attribute is also known by these names:

Context Alias
plural TELETHERAPY PHOTON ENERGY