Nebraska Medicine began construction this week on a $36 million project to add a first-of-its-kind proton therapy to the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha. While it will take two years ...

The UK’s first NHS high-energy proton beam therapy centre opened at The Christie Hospital in 2018. The University of Manchester’s research was vital in helping to bring this technology to the UK, ...

The Mayo Clinic study introduced a novel therapy combining advanced imaging techniques with proton beam radiation. Proton beam therapy delivers targeted radiation with unparalleled precision ...

Nd:YAG crystal is the most commonly used laser-active crystal owing to its excellent thermal and spectroscopic features. Diamonds, on the other hand, are of great potential for single-photon ...

The complications of proton-beam therapy include transient diplopia, headache and one case of anterior pituitary insufficiency. Three patients reported intermittent, mild diplopia. Only one ...

Unlike traditional radiation, a proton beam can be set to stop once it hits the tumor, thereby avoiding damage to tissue behind it. That makes the therapy especially useful for cancer near the ...