History Of Radiation Therapy

As far as history of radiation therapy is concerned, this therapy is used to diagnose, control and cure the cancer disease from more than hundred years. The main key component of this history of radiation therapy is the x-rays, which are discovered in 1895. The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen is the inventor of the concept like therapeutic radiation and he invented such radiative threapy when he discovered that the dangerous disease like cancer could be treated and prevented by using a powerful and sensitive x-rays.

One of the remarkable part of the history of radiation threapy is that this threapy has got recognition as a cancer treatment threapy. This radiation threapy starts to prosper in 1900s by the overwhelming contribution of Nobel Prize winner scientist pair Marie Curie. These scientists invented polonium and radium, which are the radioactive elements. So that invention considered as the new landmark in cancer related medical treatment and research. Also the new invention like cobalt and caesium are treated as the new landmarks for cancer related research.

So as a impact of this. In 1940s, many alternative medical procedures were developed, which is an electrical device for accelerating subatomic particles. Many application has been carried out by these subatomic particles like generating X-Rays to diagnose the cancer cells and injecting them into a synchrotron of a high energy at a experimental particle physics laboratory. The linear accelerators designs rely on the type of accelerated particle like electron, proton or ion. .

By analysing the history of radiation threapy, we can get familiar with advancement of various latest imaging technologies which has been discovered in the last few decades. These imaging technologies are MRI which stand for magnetic resonance imaging and was discovered in 1970. the next technology is PET which stand for positron emission tomography and was discovered in 1980s. Also the latest radiation and delivery as well as products of visualization, fusing the images play a vital role in the growth of this radiation threapy. By using these products, radiation threapy landed one-step ahead from 3-D conformal to IMRT and eventually to IGRT, which is 4-D in the upcoming days. The result of these advanced inventions in history of radiation threapy plays a vital arole in curing and preventing cancer cells without having side effects.