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Radiation with Less Risk

Laser-Based Technique IMRT Helps Radiation Therapy Stay on Target

August 1, 2000

Medical physicists have developed a new technique called intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) that uses many thin lasers of varying intensity to precisely direct radiation at a tumor while reducing the amount of radiation directed at surrounding healthy tissue.


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Martha J. Heil
mheil@aip.org
American Institute of Physics
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