ASTRO issues clinical guideline on radiation therapy for brain metastases
ARLINGTON, Va., May 10, 2022 — A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides guidance ...
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A catalyst for the development of carbon-neutral technology of the radiation accelerator
The importance of ‘carbon neutrality’ is growing more than ever, as climate change caused by global warming threatens even the ...
Penn State to lead $7.5 million study of radiation effects on electronics
Electronics employing wide bandgap semiconductors promise better resistance against radiation damage over conventional silicon-based electronics, according to a newly funded ...
Scientists have improved the composition of radiation protection glasses
Scientists at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) with colleagues from the Arabian Peninsula have improved the radiation protection properties of ...
Simple changes in care reduced heart exposure during lung cancer radiation treatment
Radiation to the heart during treatment for locally advanced lung cancer is associated with an increased risk of major adverse ...
Radiation detectors could aid archaeological discoveries
Gamma radiation detectors commonly used at nuclear power plants could be used to help archaeologists scan underground for new finds ...
Synthetic amber forgeries might be identifiable using terahertz electromagnetic radiation
Synthetic amber forgeries might be identifiable using terahertz electromagnetic radiation Credit: Alexander Clark (New Jersey Institute of Technology), CC-BY 4.0 ...
£7.3 million research will help improve nuclear radiation safety
The University of Bath is leading an international consortium of industrial and academic partners working on a £7.3 million project ...
How scientists developed new composites with good shielding performance to space radiation?
Space radiation has been identified as the main health hazard to crews involved in long-term interplanetary space missions. In deep ...
Penn Medicine awarded $12.3m NIH grant to study ultra-fast, high-dose flash radiation therapy for cancer
PHILADELPHIA — With more than $12 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Abramson Cancer ...
Traditional Chinese medicine, Shengmai Yin, improves the effects of radiation therapy, says new study in Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis
Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), a group of cancers that originate in the nose and throat, is made complicated by ...
Coronary artery calcium may help determine lung cancer patients’ risk of cardiovascular events during radiation treatment
Lung cancer patients with higher amounts of coronary artery calcium have an increased risk of an adverse cardiovascular event as ...
Burst of radiation and vesicles-based immunotherapy suppress brain cancer growth
BOSTON – Short bursts of radiation therapy dramatically enhanced the efficiency of targeting glioblastomas with natural nanoparticle-based immunotherapy, thus suppressing ...
Study: Light therapy fast-tracks healing of skin damage from cancer radiation therapy
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Light therapy may accelerate the healing of skin damage from radiation therapy by up to 50%, according ...
Physicist solves century old problem of radiation reaction
A Lancaster physicist has proposed a radical solution to the question of how a charged particle, such as an electron, ...
Examining use of extended radiation therapy for metastatic cancer near end of life
What The Study Did: This study investigated how common the use of extended radiation therapy is to treat metastatic cancer ...
Super-Earths have longer shielding against cosmic radiation, new melting curve analysis suggests
Using one of the most powerful lasers on the planet, researchers have determined the melting temperature of iron at conditions like ...
Oxygen ions in Jupiter’s innermost radiation belts
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped ...
ASTRO issues clinical guideline on external beam radiation therapy for primary liver cancers
A new clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides guidance on the use of radiation therapy ...
Terahertz radiation source: Compact and simple
Terahertz radiation has a wavelength of typically a little less than one millimetre - a technically difficult range. Electromagnetic waves ...