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This work is a review of scientific research on the development of nuclear physics methods and technologies for medicine.1 The most relevant results, many of which are already used in the practical treatment of patients, are considered. New methods for improving the quality (quality assurance) of radiation therapy during irradiation with bremsstrahlung photon and proton beams are proposed. Methods for improving the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tomography of pathological foci in the planning of radiation therapy are described. In nuclear medicine, methods for producing radionuclides on electron accelerators for immune positron emission tomography (PET) diagnostics and targeted radiotherapy are proposed. New results in biomedical applications of radiation technologies (for food processing and sterilization of bioimplants) are presented.

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  1. It has been carried out over the past 10 years by staff members and graduate students of the Department of Accelerator Physics and Radiation Medicine, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, together with staff members of medical oncological and scientific centers.

  2. The work was carried out in collaboration with Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center at the Federal Medical-Biological Agency of the Russian Federation, the Pletnev City Clinical Hospital, and the Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

  3. Rogachev National Medical Research Center of Paediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology.

  4. International Society of Paediatric Oncology.

  5. Rescanning is the repeated scanning of an irradiated volume.

  6. The work was carried out in collaboration with the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (Moscow, Russia) and the Ammosov Northeastern Federal University (Yakutsk, Russia).

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Chernyaev, A.P., Lykova, E.N. State-of-the-Art Nuclear Physics Research in Medicine. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 20, 729–744 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477123040209

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