Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innovation Center (BRIC) at the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator FacilityOct 4 2024 Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innovation Center at the U.S.
As an early-career scientist who has just joined the lab as a staff member working explicitly to further the BRIC initiative, I am very excited to have received this green light from the DOE. I am also excited about how the genesis of this project reflects the effectiveness of the labwide collaborative approach that BRIC is aiming to facilitate, and I can't wait to continue to pursue those connections as I dive into the study.
External beam radiotherapy is the use of external radiation to pass through the body and deposit energy to internal organs. It can be done using X-rays, gamma rays or subatomic particles such as electrons, neutrons or protons. But the key advantages of proton therapy are the engineered safety features that prevent the radiation source from causing radiological hazards, which come from localizing most of the energy deposition and enabling rapid radiation source powering on and off.
He was ultimately won over when he participated in DOE's Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships program at Jefferson Lab in 2014 and had a hands-on introduction to detectors, nuclear physics and imaging. "During the pandemic, while working in isolation, I started exploring career trajectories that could build off of my technical background while generating more immediately tangible positive impacts on people around me," Clarke said. "This led me to be interested in industry research applying detector physics to medical imaging."
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