Year: 2022
Type: editorial
Abstract: Applications of particle radiation technology in the medical and biological fields are focused on disease treatment, radiation protection and radiation biology research related to plants and microorganisms.With the continuous improvement of cancer treatment technologies such as protons, heavy ions and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) (1), more and more medical centers have installed and used related equipment in recent years (2).However, due to the different policies of the medical industries, the development speed of particle therapy in various countries varies significantly.Charged ion therapy could offer advantages of biological and physical dose distributions, and higher relative biological effectiveness over conventional photon therapy for treatment of X-ray resistant and hypoxic tumors (3).BNCT, on the other hand, is the hope of radiation therapy for diffuse or irregularly shaped tumors (4).Improving the accuracy and efficiency of treatment remains major challenges for medical physicists (5).Meanwhile, the worst nightmare for radiation oncologists was the accelerated metastasis and spread of tumors after radiation therapy (6).In addition, although the doctor will make a radiotherapy plan for physical dose delivery for each patient before radiation therapy (7), personalized medicine based on the radiation response of individual patients will be the future trend.The treatment based on individual radiation response now has two promising directions, combination of radiation therapy with immunotherapy and combination of radiation therapy with metabolic therapy.Radiation protection has been a top priority ever since the recognition of the harmful effects of radiation on the human.For particle radiation protection, the most important research object is the radiation of high-energy charged particles in space.Although gene editing technology (8) has developed rapidly in the past decade, radiation breeding is still an important way to cultivate crop seed lines, especially the development of particle accelerator technology and the continuous deepening
Source: Frontiers in Public Health
Authors: Fei Ye, Chao Sun, Yi Xie, Bing Wang, Lu Cai
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,950
OpenAlex ID: W4286686090