Tungsten oxide is an electrochromic material that has been widely used as an electrochromic layer for assembling a new smart glass. The researchers have selected nano composite materials of tungsten oxide and niobium oxide to create such a smart glass. The substrate of the smart glass is amorphous niobium oxide, in which a tungsten oxide nanocrystal mesh-like structure is embedded. Although the two materials are electrochromic materials, their absorption spectra are different when they change color. Tungsten oxide nanocrystals absorb near infrared light, and niobium oxide absorbs visible light.

Tungsten alloy leaf has high atomic coefficient and high density so that it has a strong ability to shield rays in a multi-leaf collimator. It has been reported that multi-leaf collimator with tungsten alloy leaf improves both the accuracy and the effectiveness of radiation therapy and reduces the time for every treatment dose, which potentially increases the number of patients treated every day. The multileaf collimator is presently an important technical tool either to replace conventional shielding for static conformational radiotherapy or to administer 3D-planned dynamic radiotherapy.

Tungsten alloy shield for dynamic multi-leaf collimator is tungsten alloy leaf on dynamic multi-leaf collimator. Certainly, there are multiple leaves. Dynamic multi-leaf collimator of linear accelerator was firstly used to replace conventional low melting alloy blocks, and was extensively used in clinical practice for the radiotherapy of different tumors.

What is the working principle of tungsten alloy multi-leaf collimator? Let's begin with some pieces of information of multi-leaf collimator. Tungsten alloy multi-leaf collimator, which was developed to replace the traditional lead blocks, are used on linear accelerators to provide conformal shaping of radiotherapy treatment beams. And specifically, conformal radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy can be delivered using multi-leaf collimators. The multi-leaf collimator has movable tungsten alloy leaves to block some fraction of the radiation beam. Typically, multi-leaf collimators have 52-160 tungsten alloy leaves, arranged in pairs. So, what is the working principle of tungsten alloy multi-leaf collimator?