«Droplet explosion by shock waves, relevant to nuclear medicine:
Ion beam cancer therapy could be improved if ion - induced shock waves are discovered.»
Not exact matches
This matters for the optimisation of
ion -
beam cancer therapy, which requires a thorough understanding of the relation between the physical characteristics of the incoming
ion beam and its effects on biological tissues.
In nuclear medicine,
ion beams — using protons and carbon
ions — have been used clinically in the radiotherapy treatment of
cancer tumours since the 1990s.
To characterize the tissue architecture associated to dysfunctional states of the immune system in
cancer settings, we make use of both confocal fluorescent microscopy and multiplexed secondary
ion beam imaging.