For many years, standard radiation therapy involved large machines focusing huge beams of ... they developed a technique called IMRT, which stands for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy ...

Now, with further technical advances, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) provides an even greater conformity of dose targeting and offers opportunities for additional clinical gains.

IMRT enables the X-ray beam used in radiotherapy to be adjusted, changing beam shape and intensity as the machine moves around the body, to match the shape of the tumour. This spares the surrounding ...