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Safer, More Accurate Radiation Therapy for Expecting Mothers

Caption: Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed new modeling tools that will enable more effective cancer treatment and imaging procedures for pregnant women. These finalized models, from left to right, represent a woman who is three months, six months, and nine months pregnant. The models were plotted with the design program Rhinoceros.

Credit: George Xu

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