Automation and standardization: redefining best practice in stereotactic radiosurgery

27 May 2021 Sponsored by Brainlab

Brainlab’s treatment planning software and patient imaging systems provide key building blocks in the stereotactic radiosurgery programme at Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center

Indication-specific: Elements Multiple Brain Mets SRS dose planning enables the delivery of highly conformal single-session treatments for multiple metastases. (Courtesy: Brainlab)

Simplicity, automation, efficiency and dose targeting with sub-mm accuracy: these are the operational reference points for the radiation oncology team running the stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) programme at Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center in San Diego, California. Underpinning that stereotactic clinical workflow is a portfolio of enabling technologies from Brainlab, a German healthcare equipment maker specializing in hardware and software products for SRS, surgical navigation and the next-generation “digital operating room”.

“Think automated treatment planning, high-precision patient positioning plus online imaging and thermal surface guidance,” says Steve Kirsner, director of medical physics at Scripps MD Anderson. “Our established suite of Brainlab products makes it easy for physicists to do what they have to do, allowing us to deliver high-quality care to our cancer patients every time. You can’t ask for more than that.”

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Irregularly shaped Moon dust creates complex scattering effects

20 May 2021 

The exact shapes of moon dust collected during the Apollo 11 mission. Credit: E. Garboczi/NIST and A. Sharits/AFRL

The Moon’s surface is covered with tiny rock grains that formed during eons of high velocity meteorite impacts. The shape of these grains affects how the lunar surface scatters light, and researchers in the US have now analysed these shapes in unprecedented detail. The results of their study – including the first computations of the optical scattering properties of nanosized Moon dust – should make it possible to create better models of the colour, brightness and polarization of particles on the Moon’s surface, and to understand how these quantities change as the Moon goes through its phases.

 

Subradiance stores light in dense atomic clouds

24 May 2021

Slow burn: physicists have observed subradiance in a dense atomic cloud. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Serg-DAV)

Subradiance, whereby excited atoms decay more slowly than usual, has been spotted in a dense atomic cloud for the first time. Giovanni Ferioli and colleagues at the University of Paris-Saclay prepared longer-lived “subradiant” atomic states using optical tweezers and laser pulses. With further improvements their technique could have applications in optics and quantum computing.

 

Exploding stars alone cannot account for rapid heavy-element production, study reveals

19 May 2021

Heavy duty: artist’s impression of the merger of two neutron stars. Such mergers could be a source of heavy elements. (Courtesy: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick/CC BY 4.0)

Exploding stars alone cannot account for the abundance of heavy elements produced by the rapid neutron capture process, a new study has revealed. An international team of researchers, led by Anton Wallner at the Australian National University, came to this conclusion after analysing the