Lang Work on PET Featured in Physics World
A team led by Karol Lang at UT Austin is exploring the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to advance clinical FLASH therapy, an emerging radiotherapy technique. FLASH therapy delivers radiation rapidly at ultrahigh dose rates, potentially sparing healthy tissue while effectively targeting cancer cells, reports Physics World.
Proton FLASH dosimetry Experimental set-up showing the two PET modules installed on either side of a cylindrical PMMA phantom being irradiated by a proton FLASH beam. (Courtesy: Physics World & Karol Lang)
"A team headed up by Karol Lang at The University of Texas at Austin is investigating the use of positron emission tomography (PET) to help in the transition to clinical FLASH therapy [a radiotherapy and emerging treatment technique in which radiation is delivered extremely rapidly at ultrahigh dose rates and that offers the potential to spare healthy tissues while effectively killing cancer cells]," reports Physics World.
Read the full report on how researchers have demonstrated the first ever recorded PET imaging and dosimetry of a proton FLASH beam in Physics World:
In-beam PET provides the first glimpse of a proton FLASH beam
