Drug Discovery
New drug discovery study findings have been reported from University of Western Ontario, Department of Medical Biophysics
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 29th, 2006
Scientists discuss in "The response of prototype plane-parallel ionization chambers in small megavoltage x-ray fields" new findings in drug discovery. "Accurate small-field dosimetry has become important with the use of multiple small fields in modern radiotherapy treatments such as IMRT and stereotactic radiosurgery. In this study, we investigate the response of a set of prototype plane-parallel ionization chambers, based upon the Exradin T11 chamber, with active volume diameters of 2, 4, 10, and 20 mm, exposed to 6 MV stereotactic radiotherapy x-ray fields," scientists in London, Canada report.
"Our goal was to assess their usefulness for accurate small x-ray field...
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