Fine tuning the amount of radioactivity to deliver to cancerous tissue is a persistent challenge since too much radiation will do unnecessary damage to healthy tissue, while not enough won’t kill the tumor. Estimates and simulations can be done, but they can be inaccurate, so a new approach of actually creating phantoms of individual patients’ organs before radiotherapy is now being used to get better results.
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