Acoustic Imaging Aims to Reduce Tissue Damage from Radiation Therapy
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 18, 2023 — The need to deliver the intended, optimal radiation dose to a tumor while sparing the healthy tissue surrounding the cancer is critical to cancer treatments using radiation therapy. Now, with a real-time, 3D imaging system developed at the University of Michigan (UM), doctors and other medical professionals may be able to direct radiation with more precision, limiting the exposure of adjacent tissue. The UM researchers developed a volumetric, ionizing radiation acoustic imaging (iRAI)