BBCNEWS The Context June 4, 2024 19:48:00
Radiotherapy is a life saving treatment for cancer patients. but before machines like this can start to shrink tumours, there's a laborious task for doctors. well, you can actually see here... the radiation target needs to be precisely mapped. medics want to avoid weakening bones or damaging organs. so, somehow, we've got to kind of avoid dose from each of these areas. if we weaken these bones... carefully plotting each area typically takes between 25 minutes and two hours per patient. it's time medics could spend getting through a backlog or supporting families. so researchers at microsoft ha...