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But wait- Does Radiation cause cancer?
Let’s start with a few basic things about human cells; the things that make up your body. They basically do one of four things at anyone time things – grow, move, change, or die. The body sends out...
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Who and what are these professionals known as medical physicists? Generally speaking, Medical Physics is a profession that deals with applying physics into medicine. There are many physics concepts...
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Radiation: What is it?
Right, let’s step back a bit and talk about what exactly is radiation. Many people are curious about what it is and hopefully after reading this you will realize that it’s not as mysterious as you...
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Is Background Radiation Safe?
If you did not already know background radiation is everywhere! But do we need to worry about it? Background radiation is the radiation that is naturally around you and it’s been there for many...
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Macrobiotics: effective cure for radiation sickness and cancer
“If you have been exposed to any form of radiation, either for medical diagnostic purposes (fluoroscopy/mammography/other medical x-ray exams) or in the course of radiotherapy treatment, or if you are...
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X-rays: How do we make them?
Before I talk more about some of the other radiotherapy devices used throughout the history of radiotherapy, I want to explain the common ways of producing the radiation. These are basic components...
View ArticleWe can’t feel, see, hear, smell, or taste it!
We can’t feel, see, hear, smell, or taste it! Ionizing Radiation is strange! It’s not like many other things we come into contact in our day to day lives. We can’t hear it, we can’t see it, we can’t...
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Early days-Kilo voltage Treatment Machines: Radiotherapy Machines #2
Early days-Kilo voltage Treatment Machines: Radiotherapy Machines #2 Kilovoltage treatment machines were the workhorses of radiotherapy in the 1920s to 1960s. We owe a lot to these devices for...
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What Exactly is Radiation? a Series of Video Explanations
As much as I would like to think that I am a brilliant writer (I’m not, but I try), somethings are best explained in video. And since I am not great in making videos- I hope to be one day- I though I...
View ArticleSo What Does Physics Have to do With Radiotherapy?
How are Physics and Radiotherapy Related? So what does physics have to do with radiotherapy, and for that matter what does physics have to do with medicine? Isn’t physics done at high tech...
View ArticleHow do you detect Radiation?
When people talk about Radiation, they often describe a substance that is scary, dangerous, and not well understood. This is generally a fair assumption. You can’t see, hear, taste, feel, or smell...
View ArticleThe Nature of the Photon
Light is a fundamental feature of our life’s, but when the nature of light is questioned every rational person thinks they know the answer. Even the great mind of Albert Einstein did not know the full...
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