The annual meeting of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), originally due to take place in April, is now being staged as a fully digital event
Read article: ESTRO 2020 enables digital dialogue on radiation oncology
Lunar expert Hannah Sargeant is our guest this week
Read article: Making water on the Moon, radiotherapy for COVID-19, gear-changing particle colliders
The benefits of FLASH radiotherapy may be due in part to the sparing of circulating immune cells at high dose rates
Read article: FLASH radiotherapy mechanism may arise from immune cell sparing
PTW’s modular RUBY phantom is being optimized to support daily and end-to-end quality assurance (QA) for the Elekta Unity MR-Linac treatment system
Read article: Defining QA best practice in MR-guided radiotherapy
Early data suggest that low-dose radiotherapy can improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients, but any irradiation regimen must be considered with care
Read article: Can low-dose radiotherapy treat COVID-19-related pneumonia?
Simulations shed light on how spatially fractionated mini- or micro-beams destroy tumours while sparing nearby normal tissue
Read article: Could hydrogen peroxide generation underlie mini- and micro-beam radiotherapy efficacy?
LAP is majoring on functional and commercial innovation with the roll-out of automated 3D dose verification and a new subscription licensing model for its RadCalc QA software
Read article: RadCalc innovations reinforce the benefits of independent QA
A German research collaboration is pursuing an ambitious development roadmap to realize a next-generation multileaf collimator
Read article: Hypofractionation: pushing the boundaries of MLC performance
Meenu Stephen, a newly qualified medical physicist, describes the difficulties of looking for and starting a new job during lockdown
Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘This coronavirus has created an employment crisis across the country’
Developed specifically for verification of stereotactic treatment plans, IBA Dosimetry’s latest innovation in patient quality assurance (QA) combines film-class measurement resolution with the workf...
Read article: Patient QA: prioritizing accuracy, efficiency and throughput in the SRS/SBRT workflow
