Image-Guided Precision Radiotherapy
Your support in the 2022 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge helped fuel this project led by UC Irvine School of Medicine Associate Professor, Liangzhong Xiang, PhD.
Watch the video and discover more about the research you helped fund!
Xiang’s Anti-Cancer Challenge Funded Research
When treating cancer with radiation therapy, imaging is crucial to help plan and deliver the treatment effectively.
With the emergence of a new type of radiation therapy called FLASH, new imaging techniques are needed to account for daily changes during treatment. Researchers are working on a new imaging modality called radiation-induced acoustic imaging, which will provide real time 3D dose verification for FLASH therapy.
This new technology will help ensure that the treatment is delivered precisely and accurately to the tumor and healthy tissues. This breakthrough can lead to a paradigm shift in using FLASH-RT for cancer treatment, which can benefit patients who may suffer from radiation-induced toxicities.
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