The process results in high energy beams that combine the best of traditional x rays and radiation therapy with the cancer fighting potential of light.
Photon laser therapy.
Proton therapy is a type of radiation therapy a treatment that uses high energy beams to treat tumors.
It uses photon beams to get to the tumor but also can damage healthy tissue around the tumor.
In the field of medical treatment proton therapy or proton radiotherapy is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue most often to treat cancer.
Proton therapy is a newer type of radiation therapy that uses energy from positively charged particles called protons.
Photon beam radiation therapy is another name for what is usually known as external beam radiation therapy.
Ability to deliver higher therapeutic doses of radiation to tumors more accurate targeting of tumors lower radiation exposure to normal tissue reducing short and long term side effects including development of new cancers.
Photons are used in treatments that are given by a machine called a linear accelerator.
The benefits of pencil beam proton therapy include.
Researchers at the university of california.
It accelerates cell biochemical circulation and stimulates the production of collagen.