Novel Technologies of Radiation Therapy
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 209
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Interests: radiation detection; Monte Carlo simulation; radiation; ionizing radiation; radiation protection; radiation dosimetry; radiation physics; C++; radioactivity emission
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Dear Colleagues,
The enormous technological progress made in ionizing radiation therapy over the last two decades has given rise to new methods of cancer treatment. In general, radiation therapy can be divided into two groups. The first is external beam therapy (teleradiotherapy and hadron therapy), and the second is based on radiation emitted from inside the patient's body (brachytherapy and isotope therapy). New techniques to generate external beams are three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT), intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT), boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), etc., using a variety of radiation delivery devices such as a linear electron accelerators (Linacs), robotic systems like Cyber Knife, Gamma Knife based on Co-60 radiation sources, tomotherapy machines and proton beam cyclotrons. One of the latest technological innovations used in internal beam therapy is robot-assisted brachytherapy that allows you to effectively treat primarily prostate cancer. Effective dosimetry is a challenge for so many techniques that use different types of radiation. To meet this task, new detectors are still being constructed from new materials such as polymers or various types of alloys. Computational methods used in treatment planning systems or in various types of scientific research based, for example, on Monte Carlo simulations or artificial intelligence algorithms have also developed. Nanotechnology has also entered the field of radiation therapy. Gold nanoparticles began to be used as radiosensitizers, while boron nanoparticles allow to increase the therapeutic dose in proton therapy. Nuclear medicine is also progressing, not only due to the use of new devices, such as miniature proton cyclotrons, which enable the production of diagnostic radioisotopes in the hospital, but also due to the search for and use of new radioisotopes and pharmaceuticals. The above-mentioned problems and a number of others related to the progress in radiation therapy are the content of this issue.
Prof. Dr. Adam Konefał
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- teleradiotherapy
- brachytherapy
- hadron therapy
- isotope therapy
- boron neutron capture therapy
- nuclear medicine
- clinical dosimetry
- artificial intelligence algorithms
- monte carlo simulations
- treatment planning systems
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