Radiation therapy has been in use as a cancer treatment for more than 100 years, with its earliest roots traced from the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen. The field of radiation therapy began to grow in the early 1900s largely due to the groundbreaking work of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, who [...]
Radiotherapy also known as Radiation Therapy, is a treatment of disease primarily malignant tumors using electromagnetic and particulate radiation. Aims of Radiotherapy: 1. Radical Care – treatment is intended to cure the patient of his/her disease. 2. Palliative Care – relieve the patient of the distressing symptoms of the advance disease or cancer – ease [...]
Built by Lawrence in 1929 Accelerates positive particles rather than the electrons Uses positively charged particles such as proton, neutron, alphas, deuterons, short- lived radioisotopes Particles are accelerated in a circular chamber called dees The particles are accelerated by electric fields between the dees until the particle acquires the desired energy Powerful magnetic filed are [...]
