When attacking tumors using beams of radiation, it is important to avoid nearby parts of the body the damage to which may be severely detrimental to the patient. Now a research partnership between Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg University Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School has developed a piece of software that works in real-time to help physicians create an attack plan best optimized for tumor destruction while leaving fragile tissue as unharmed as possible.
Here’s a report from Fraunhofer, which includes a few scenes that demonstrate how the software operates:
Sounds like Elekta has licensed this technology for its radiotherapy systems.
Source: Fraunhofer…