Dose Measurement During Prostate Cancer Treatment
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 13:35
in Health & Medicine
During radiation therapy, the physicians try to keep the dose in the tumor as high as possible to destroy as many cancer cells as possible. To avoid the damaging of healthy tissue, it is becoming more and more important to check the exact amount of the dose. For this purpose, scientists have now developed a measuring system in the case of which the amino acid "alanine", whose radiation transport properties resemble those of human tissue, is used as indicator.