High-contrast imaging for cancer therapy with protons

(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) Medical physicist Dr. Aswin Hoffmann and his team from the Institute of Radiooncology -- OncoRay at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are the first researchers worldwide to combine magnetic resonance imaging with a proton beam, thus demonstrating that in principle, this commonly used imaging method can indeed work with particle beam cancer treatments. This opens up new opportunities for targeted, healthy tissue-sparing cancer therapy. The researchers published their results in the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news