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Let’s say you are irradiating a tumor that needs to receive a certain dose of energy. For the tumor to receive this radiation it must pass through the skin. Because it decays with r^2 the skin sees more radiation then the tumor and will always receive more (unless you use multiport not considered for this problem). The goal of minimizing this difference so as not to cause more cancer than you are treating lead to this statement: my prof claims that you can increase the distance of the patient from the source to minimize the radiation seen by the skin while still keeping the dose at the tumor site. He claims that as both r1 and r2 increase the difference become less important.
I feel this is not correct because if you work back from the tumor the skin will always see that same amount of radiation. Which way of thought is correct?
If anyone can follow that they are a guru of illogical thought at the very least.
INtj
I feel this is not correct because if you work back from the tumor the skin will always see that same amount of radiation. Which way of thought is correct?
If anyone can follow that they are a guru of illogical thought at the very least.
INtj