Dr. Miley had already used ultraviolet blood irradiation, first conceived in 1928 by a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer named Emmet K. Knott, to cure septicemia or “blood poisoning” (TIME ...

Therefore, developing irradiation technologies that can further reduce the dose to normal tissues is a pressing issue. In recent years, it has been reported that in radiation therapy, when the ...

With the new workflow, a low-dose CT scan is taken before each irradiation. The radiation dose of the proton therapy is then ...