A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional ...

Purpose: Conventional contrast-enhanced MRI is currently the primary imaging technique used to evaluate radiation treatment response in meningiomas. However, newer perfusion-weighted MRI techniques, ...

Prostate cancer patients can undergo 68 Ga-PSMA prostate PET/MRI scans with radiation doses reduced by ... MR prior for all doses, combined FDPET image and target subtraction difference map and ...

A new nasal delivery method for amifostine could protect healthy tissue during pancreatic cancer radiation therapy, ...

Its location near critical organs such as the small intestine complicates treatment as high-dose radiation therapy often ...

In general, if there is no adjacent organ(s)-at-risk (OARs), one of the dosimetric goals is to generate a homogeneous, isotropic distribution of absorbed radiation dose within the target.

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it has developed a more accurate method to estimate radiation exposure doses among people who spend time around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

nuclear radiation). Exposure of the skin to high doses of ionizing radiation leads to accumulation of lymphocytes in the layers of the skin caused by the effects of cell death and eventually to the ...

Anisotropy Function: A function that accounts for the directional dependence of radiation dose distribution around a brachytherapy source. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of ...

Unlike traditional radiation that uses the same treatment map day after day ... you can keep that dose substantially lower," Spratt noted. "There's been different studies done where actually ...