Integrated Radiation Therapy Shielding Measurement and Design

放射治疗是一种最先进的治疗方法，超过50%的癌症患者需要它。放射疗法的工作原理是向肿瘤发射高能x射线，类似于在图像采集过程中使用的x射线，目的是将肿瘤从患者体内烧掉。由于在这种治疗过程中会产生辐射，目前的机器被安装在专门设计的房间里，以保护外面的人免受辐射。这种方法的结果是，目前设备的安装非常复杂和昂贵，这意味着只有大型医院才能负担得起这项技术。只有大型医院提供放射治疗，这意味着患者必须前往这些中心接受挽救生命的治疗。Leo Cancer Care与Innovate UK和国家物理实验室合作，正在开发一种创新的方法，将辐射屏蔽整合到当前Leo Cancer Care放射治疗设备的设计中。这种协同努力将使这种救生技术能够安装在无辐射屏蔽的房间里，甚至可以通过安装在卡车后面使该技术完全移动。这一发展将大大降低放射治疗技术的成本，这意味着英国各地的癌症患者以及离家较近的小型医院将有更多的系统可供使用。Leo癌症护理中心将在晚些时候开发的移动选项将允许癌症护理到患者身边，而不是反过来。

Radiation therapy is a state of the art treatment that more than 50% of cancer patients need. Radiation therapy works by firing high energy x-rays, similar to those used during image acquisition, at a tumour in order to \*\*\*burn it out of the patient.Due to the fact that radiation is produced during this treatment, current machines are installed in specially designed rooms to shield people outside from the radiation. As a consequence of this approach, the installation of current devices is incredibly complex and expensive and means that only large hospitals can afford the technology. Only having radiation therapy available in large hospitals means that patients have to travel to those centres to receive the life saving treatments.Leo Cancer Care, in partnership with Innovate UK and the National Physical Laboratory are developing an innovative approach to integrate the radiation shielding into the design of the current Leo Cancer Care radiotherapy device. This collaborative effort will result in the ability to install such life saving technology into a non-radiation shielded room or even make the technology completely mobile by installing it on the back of a truck.This development will result in dramatic cost reductions in radiation therapy technology meaning that more systems will be available to cancer patients throughout the UK and in smaller hospitals close to home. The mobile option that Leo Cancer Care would look to develop at a later date would allow cancer care to travel to patients rather than the other way around.