Sentences with phrase «compare radiation doses»
As part of the Building a Better Explainer project at N.Y.U.'s Studio 20, we decided to create a visual explainer of radiation levels, inspired by some recent presentations over at XKCD and Information is Beautiful.Both compare radiation doses from everyday activities (like eating a banana or flying across the country) to doses near the Fukushima plant, as well as other disasters like Chernobyl.
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Experts say the dose from the backscatter is negligible when compared with naturally occurring background radiation, but a linear model shows even such trivial amounts increase the number of cancer cases
The tumors» recruitment of these inflammatory cells thus enabled them to resist what would otherwise have been a deadly dose of radiation, so that their growth slowed only modestly compared to control mice that had received no radiation.
Measured in millisieverts (mSv), the average radiation dose from an abdominal - pelvic CT is 10 mSv, compared to 0.02 to 0.2 mSv from one chest x-ray, meaning that a radiation dose from a CT scan is best approximated as between that from 100 - 250 chest radiographs.
Presenting these results at the 3rd ESTRO Forum in Barcelona, Spain, today (Monday) Professor James Morris, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), Vancouver, Canada, will say that the ASCENDE - RT1 trial is the first and only existing trial comparing low - dose - rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR - PB) for the curative treatment of prostate cancer with any other method of radiation therapy delivery.
Swartz is still in the process of comparing his dosimeter readings with the actual radiation doses that Dana — Farber administered.
Compared to the conventional radiation therapy (RT) approach of small doses given daily over several weeks, SBRT delivers a highly targeted, escalated dose of radiation in a single session or as many as five of treatments, usually between one and five fractions.
A typical nuclear medicine procedure may impart a radiation dose to the patient comparable to about one to four years of natural background radiation depending on the type of study.1 As with X-rays, the value of diagnostic imaging is great and the risks are negligible compared to the health benefits of having the procedure.
It utilizes a robotic arm to deliver the entire therapeutic dose to an animal in 1 - 3 treatments, compared to conventional radiation therapy, which can employ up to 20 treatments.
Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) is the use of this very precise technology to deliver high doses of radiation in fewer treatments compared to conventional protocols.
Here's a chart (click to enlarge) comparing ionizing radiation doses from a host of different activities and sources, ranging from eating a banana to living in Denver: