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	Podcast:		Physics World Weekly Podcast
	Episode:		Ionizing radiation: its biological impacts and how it is used to treat disease
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:37:49
	Publish Date:		2025-03-13 16:09:26
	Description:		This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Ileana Silvestre Patallo, a medical physicist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, and Ruth McLauchlan, consultant radiotherapy physicist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. In a wide-ranging conversation with Physics World’s Tami Freeman, Patallo and McLauchlan explain how ionizing radiation such as X-rays and proton beams interact with our bodies and how radiation is being used to treat diseases including cancer. This episode was created in collaboration with IPEM, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. IPEM owns the journal Physics in Medicine & Biology.
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