{"id":236954,"date":"2026-05-12T02:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/lab-grown-diamond-device-could-change-how-radiation-doses-are-measured"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:35:01","slug":"lab-grown-diamond-device-could-change-how-radiation-doses-are-measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/lab-grown-diamond-device-could-change-how-radiation-doses-are-measured","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown diamond device could change how radiation doses are measured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-diamond-device-could-change-how-radiation-doses-are-measured.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in collaboration with Tohoku University and Orbray Co., Ltd., using heteroepitaxial diamond materials developed by Orbray, have shown that lab-grown diamonds might realize a radiation dosimeter compatible with both medical diagnosis and radiation therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/mp.70363\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Medical Physics.<\/p>\n<p>They demonstrated that a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2023-04-capsule-x-ray-dosimeter-real-time-radiotherapy.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">diamond-based dosimeter<\/a> could accurately measure doses in the same energy range as diagnostic X-rays, with far better sensitivity per volume than conventional detectors. Using the same device for dosimetry during both diagnosis and therapies could enable improved consistency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University, in collaboration with Tohoku University and Orbray Co., Ltd., using heteroepitaxial diamond materials developed by Orbray, have shown that lab-grown diamonds might realize a radiation dosimeter compatible with both medical diagnosis and radiation therapy. The work is published in the journal Medical Physics. They demonstrated that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}