The word "irradiate" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something is being exposed to or subjected to radiation (i.e., particles or waves emitted from a source) or is being illuminated by a powerful light source. Example sentence: "The hospital uses special machines to irradiate the patient's tumors with radiation."
MammoSite, as an adjunct to whole-breast irradiation, is used instead of conventional modalities to irradiate the lumpectomy site, and laboratory testing has shown it effective for this purpose.
In the CARS method two strong collinear laser beams at frequencies ν1 and ν2 (ν1 > ν2) irradiate a sample.
While imprisoned at the farm, Bond breaks out of his cell and overhears Goldfinger briefing a group of Mafia leaders about the true meaning of Operation Grand Slam: he intends to have Galore's pilots spray a lethal nerve gas over Fort Knox and then irradiate the complex with an atomic bomb supplied by the Chinese.
So clearly proton therapy can be used to irradiate the brain and the spine with fewer theoretical side-effects, so why is medulloblastoma still not a recommended treatment for proton-beam therapy overseas?
The implication was that proton therapy could not be used to irradiate the spine and brain.
His early enthusiasms included Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, and thoughts of Jackson Pollock irradiate his career.
In "Ten Days in the Hills," the yoga adept and holy man Paul assures the others of the illusory nature of the world, and Elena, pondering her lover's impotence, hypothesizes that he can love her "only if who she was was not so potent and concentrated as to irradiate him with the full intensity of her fears".
Every year, we waste forty per cent of the food we produce, and process, pasteurize, or irradiate much of the rest, sterilizing the live cultures that keep us healthy.
Kelman, like Knausgaard, is rarely boring when writing like this: partly because, like Knausgaard, he simply proceeds as if the subject matter were interesting; and partly because, in writing as in most areas, limitation increases focus, and tends to irradiate necessity as if it were a luxury.
