Healthy Tissue Saved During Radiotherapy By Innovative Concept

Small body movements that occur while breathing are enough to cause unnecessary damage to healthy tissue when treating cancerous tumours with radiotherapy, but a unique solution has been invented by a QUT professor. Queensland University of Technology physics lecturer Professor Christian Langton, a specialist in ultrasound, was awarded first place for his concept in the bluebox Ideas Competition run by QUT’s commercialisation company bluebox.

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Filed under: Radiology on October 27th, 2008