RE: Particle Physics Might Save Your Life! Take 1: Cancer Treatment via Hadron Therapy.

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nonlinearone (65)in #steemit • 8 years ago

Excellent, thanks for this down to Earth summary of an important aspect of our favorite subject :) Have you ever heard of the Peregrine project?

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claudiop63 (66) 8 years ago

Err...no! I will google it immediately :-)

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nonlinearone (65) 8 years ago

I went to a talk on it decades ago.

The PEREGRINE program, a new approach to planning radiation therapy, has joined the more than 4,000-year search for a cure for cancer. Drawing on 40 years of expertise in radiation physics, LLNL researchers have developed PEREGRINE, a highly accurate computer system for calculating where and how much radiation is absorbed in the body during radiation treatment for cancer and other diseases.

I don't think it ever took off but I was wondering if something similar had

https://www.aps.org/about/physics-images/archive/peregrine.cfm https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:33019642 https://str.llnl.gov/str/Moses.html

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claudiop63 (66) 8 years ago

I don't know about this specific program, but I do know that accurate radiation absorption models do exist nowadays and are used in treatment planning. Also, as I mentioned in the post, correlating patient-specific data with historical data about doses delivered, clinical outcomes, etc, is regarded as a key research domain and Big Data challenge...

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