AI-based tool improves the quality of radiation therapy plans for cancer treatment

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Todd McNutt , who is a medical physicist at Johns Hopkins University and the founder of Oncospace. In a conversation with Physics World ’s Tami Freeman, McNutt explains how an artificial intelligence-based tool called Plan AI can help improve the quality of radiation therapy plans for cancer treatments. As well as discussing the benefits that Plan AI brings to radiotherapy patients and cancer treatment centres, they examine its evolution from an idea developed by an academic collaboration to a clinical product offered today by Sun Nuclear, a US manufacturer of radiation equipment and software. This podcast is sponsored by Sun Nuclear.

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This episode is 38:33 long.

This episode was published on Jan 29, 2026.

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