A scientific breakthrough may give the field of radiation oncology new tools to increase the precision and safety of radiation treatment in cancer patients by helping doctors “see” the powerful beams of a linear accelerator as they enter or exit the body.Long exposure image of Cherenkov emission and induced fluorescence from Fluorescein dissolving in water during irradiation from a therapeutic LINAC beam. Image courtesy of engineering Ph.D. candidate Adam Glaser.We don't have X-ray vision. When we have an X-ray or mammogram, we cannot detect the radiation beam that passes through our bone or soft tissue, neither can our doctor. But what if we could see X-rays?
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