Sentences with phrase «determine radiation doses»

Using this kind of sensor, doctors may be able to better determine radiation doses and to monitor whether treatments are having the desired effect, according to the researchers, who describe the device in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of April 21.

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He had used cloned mice with identical tumors to determine ideal radiation doses before turning to protons.

The imaging software — developed and currently in use only at Cincinnati Children's — mathematically determines the lowest possible radiation dose for the patient before a scan is performed, according to the study led by David Larson, MD, radiology quality and safety director at the medical center and principal architect of the technology.

«Image quality is what determines the appropriate radiation dose — the challenge is to find the threshold where the dose is as low as possible, but the images are still clear,» Larson added.

Case Western Reserve research associate Amar Desai, PhD, worked between the Markowitz and Gerson laboratories to determine the effect of SW033291 on mice that had received lethal doses of radiation and then received a partial bone marrow transplant.

This determined that the dose - effect relationship is linear down to the lowest doses such that there is no safe dose of radiation, only permissible doses.

Additional work recently presented at the 2014 American Society for Radiation Oncology in San Francisco carried the work further in order to determine whether protection from the additional radiation dose in fact translated to a reduction in ischemic heart disease.

These specialists are leaders in determining the best type and dose of radiation therapy to treat cancer.

Multiple treatments are administered in treating cancer with radiation, the precise schedule and number of doses are determined by the goals of treatment.