Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to create compact gamma-ray sources that are simultaneously brighter, sharper, ...

For decades, as cardiac diagnosis and therapies advanced using X-rays and other imaging, a phenomenon called scatter radiation loomed as a threat to specialists treating a patient. During an X-ray, ...

Due to breathing motion, lung tumours move during stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Scatter imaging, which collects photons scattered out of the radiation therapy beam, is a potential ...

The MAMMOMAT Inspiration Prime Edition lowers the radiation dose to patients by replacing a standard scatter radiation with an algorithm, which identifies scatter-causing structures and calculates a ...

EggNest Complete (Egg Medical), a table-integrated shielding system that moves with the patient, reduces scatter radiation in the cath lab as well as a leading competitor, but with the added benefit ...

WASHINGTON, DC—An inexpensive and widely available scatter-radiation absorbing drape helps reduce the amount of radiation that operators are exposed to across a range of diagnostic, coronary, and ...