Cambridge extends world leading role for medical imaging with powerful new brain and body scanners

24 October 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥next generation of imaging technology, newly installed at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, will give researchers an unprecedented view of the human body – in particular of the myriad connections within our brains and of tumours as they grow and respond to treatment – and could pave the way for development of treatments personalised for individual patients.

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Image-guided intensity modulated RT plan for a patient with a spinal  tumour.  ̽»¨Ö±²¥radiation dose is shaped away from the kidneys (yellow  outlines) and the spinal nerve roots (inside the green outline).  ̽»¨Ö±²¥colour wash represents radiation dose

Project to improve radiotherapy planning

30 January 2012

A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will develop improved tools for the planning of high precision radiotherapy. Accel-RT will also help overcome time constraints that currently limit the use of complex radiotherapy treatment.

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