Jenny
Power

Jenny is a PhD student at the University of Bath, working on brachytherapy treatment for cancer patients. Brachytherapy is a type of radiation treatment that consists of placing sealed, radioactive sources directly into or next to the tumour to be treated. These sources emit radiation which kills the tumour. The main question this project will address is “Where should these radioactive seeds be placed (and how many of them), such that the dose on the critical organs is minimised?”. The aim of this work is to develop a numerical model which will determine the optimal placements of these radioactive sources such that the damage on the critical organs and surrounding tissue is minimal, but the dose on the tumour is still high enough to eradicate it.