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28 June 2024
Artificial intelligence and radiotherapy: a reality at the service of patients
Published by
Charlotte Robert
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N° 213 -
AI & Healthcare & Digital & Defense
Since 2018, artificial intelligence has greatly changed clinical practices in radiotherapy, both speeding up patient care and opening up great prospects for increased personalization of care.
Radiotherapy:highlights Radiotherapy plays a key role in the therapeutic arsenal against cancer, with more than 204,000 cancer patients treated by irradiation in 2021 (INCA) and some 4.3 million sessions performed nationwide that same year. In practice, radiotherapy uses beams of ionizing particles, mainly photons or protons, arranged to deposit a homogeneous absorbed dose in the volume to be treated (the absorbed dose represents a deposit of energy normalized by the mass of matter receiving...
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Author
Charlotte Robert