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Aren’t there ways to have several beams outside body converge in the body to produce heat? If there is a way to highlight cancer, then it could burn out all th
by treeman79 6y ago
Aren’t there ways to have several beams outside body converge in the body to produce heat?
If there is a way to highlight cancer, then it could burn out all the bright spots
- KMag 6y agoPhotons, electors, and protons all have exponential drop-offs in energy as they pass through the body. (Obviously much flatter for protons or x-rays than for visible light.) If you're going to go very deep, you're going to want to use at least X-rays if not electron or proton beams. Even with UV, it's just not very efficient to lose such a high percentage of energy near the surface. But, you're right, probably 20 years ago I saw photos of a device for converging proton beams on brain cancer. It just doesn't work very well using anything weaker than X-rays for anything very deep.