Sentences with phrase «enable radiation doses»

Among the advances that have already been made are linear accelerators that generate higher - energy radiation beams, and more versatile patient tables that enable radiation doses to be delivered to the tumor from a variety of angles and directions.

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A new screening tool for prostate cancer, the prostate - specific antigen test, enabled doctors to detect it earlier in more men, and patients were flocking to hospitals for low doses of conventional photon radiation.
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.
Reported today in the British Journal of Cancer, the test could enable doctors to monitor the effectiveness of treatments without exposing patients to repeated doses of radiation.
With advanced treatment - planning software and a board - certified radiation oncologist, our cancer patients benefit from customized treatment plans and sub-millimeter precision that enable the delivery of high - dose radiation directly to the tumor with minimum radiation exposure to the surrounding healthy anatomy.
Enables low - dose radiation image capture without sacrificing clear, high - quality diagnostic images
The LINAC has multi-leaf collimators which enable veterinary radiation oncologists to shape the radiation field to the contours of the tumor and minimize dose to the surrounding normal tissues.
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