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Research & innovation news RSS feedIn brief: research round-up
Feb 9, 2012
Recent developments in diagnostics, radiotherapy, biosensing and more.
What is cardiac radiation's link to cancer?
Feb 8, 2012
Questions remain about the link between ionizing radiation in cardiac imaging and the development of cancer.
Dosimetry predicts memory impairment
Feb 2, 2012 (1 comment)
How does the hippocampal dose during cranial radiotherapy impact long-term memory?
Robust MCO eases IMPT planning
Feb 1, 2012
Including robustness in multicriteria optimization helps create robust plans for intensity-modulated proton therapy.
Ultralow-dose CT enables PET correction
Jan 30, 2012
Ultralow-dose CT scans can be used for attenuation correction and respiratory gating of PET scans.
Innovation: patent applications review
Jan 27, 2012
Our survey of the latest international patent applications in radiation therapy reviews filings from Accuray, Philips, Xoft and more.
Classifying motion guides adaptive therapy
Jan 24, 2012
A scheme that classifies sources of lung tumour geometric variability could help guide adaptive radiotherapy.
In-gantry or remote patient positioning?
Jan 20, 2012
Remote patient positioning can increase the throughput of proton therapy centres, in some circumstances.
Dual-role phantom offers proton dosimetry
Jan 19, 2012
Polymer gel dosimeter measures proton dose distribution and the induced positron emission activity simultaneously.
Nanoparticles deliver two therapies in one
Jan 17, 2012
Dual-function nanoparticles show promise for photodynamic and photothermal therapy.
In brief: research round-up
Jan 13, 2012
Recent developments in radiotherapy, tumour modelling, nanomedicine and more.
Siemens explains rationale for linac exit
Jan 12, 2012 (2 comments)
Siemens Healthcare discusses its decision to exit from the linear accelerator business.
Couch attenuation undermines plan quality
Jan 6, 2012
Attenuation by the treatment couch during IMRT and arc therapy can lead to an unacceptable reduction in dose to target structures.
Mechanistic model predicts RBE
Jan 4, 2012
Radiobiological approach models the relative biological effectiveness of protons and carbon ions in radiotherapy.
Bragg curve model ramps clinic efficiency
Dec 22, 2011
An analytical expression that models Bragg curves could significantly increase patient throughput in proton therapy centres.
SWI reveals long-term radiotherapy effects
Dec 13, 2011
7T susceptibility-weighted imaging sheds light on the relationship between dose and microbleed incidence in glioma patients.
In brief: research round-up
Dec 8, 2011
Recent developments in neuroimaging, radiotherapy, nanomedicine and more.
MLC tracks target translation and rotation
Dec 5, 2011
Tumour rotation can be detected and corrected in real-time using dynamic multileaf collimator tracking.
Quantifying small field uncertainties
Nov 25, 2011
Detailed experimental study seeks to quantify the uncertainties in small field dosimetry.
Delivery errors: what's the clinical impact?
Nov 24, 2011
When performing radiotherapy QA, it's vital to consider the effect that delivery errors have on clinical outcome.