Cancer Treatment

Making radiation from cancer treatment safer

An important factor to consider with radiological cancer treatment today is the absolute uncertainty in the amount of radiation dose applied to the tissue. For various reasons the almost universally accepted standard of radiation dose measurement uncertainty has been approximately 5%. This uncertainty in dose– can lead to potentially permanent tissue damage, or inadequate exposure requiring repeat treatments.
Our technology is able to obtain a 1% absolute accuracy for diagnostic or radiation treatment. Reducing uncertainties by 5x may decrease the number of post treatment complications by 20-30% impacting tens of thousands of cancer patients each year in the US alone, saving lives and reducing costs.
Rapid acquisition of measurement data helps reduce these uncertainties by more precise monitoring of exposure times.