The reason for this is a little bit of radiation damages your DNA causing the cells to go haywire, whereas a lot of radiation kills the cells outright.
So if you get cancer, you blast the cancer cells with radiation to wipe them out. The radiation is targeted so you don’t wipe out healthy cells.
What that means is that high energy particles deposit little energy at first, but as they gradually slow down they deposit more and more. There is a peak where most of the energy is deposited, depending on the starting energy and density of material (tissue). This is called the Bragg Peak and having non-constant (range of) starting energies you can specify a range of dosage deposition instead of a single point.
The reason for this is a little bit of radiation damages your DNA causing the cells to go haywire, whereas a lot of radiation kills the cells outright.
So if you get cancer, you blast the cancer cells with radiation to wipe them out. The radiation is targeted so you don’t wipe out healthy cells.
How are they able to target cancer cells?
Very carefully.
Literally, it’s like they aim a laser at it
With physics.
The particles lose energy roughly depending on their inverse velocity(=>energy) squared
What that means is that high energy particles deposit little energy at first, but as they gradually slow down they deposit more and more. There is a peak where most of the energy is deposited, depending on the starting energy and density of material (tissue). This is called the Bragg Peak and having non-constant (range of) starting energies you can specify a range of dosage deposition instead of a single point.
With shit like this
They focus the photon beams onto the affected area.