Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

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Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

New ASTRO White Paper Recommends Best Practices for IGRT

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new white paper, “Assuring Safety and Quality in Image Guided Delivery of Radiation Therapy,” that recommends best practices to improve the safety and effectiveness of image guided r...

Ongoing Progress to Target Tumors

Of the many ongoing efforts to minimize dose to healthy tissue and target radiation to hit only tumors, image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is one of those at the forefront. New features and software are being offered and updated by major systems ven...

CT Imaging Keeps Radiation Beams on Target

Computed tomography (CT) virtual simulation systems allow 3-D viewing and planning along with verification images to achieve the same level of treatment simulation as with radiotherapy (RT) simulation. CT offers an improvement over conventional si...

4-D SBRT Boosts Accuracy

The most difficult challenge in external beam radiation therapy is the ability of doctors to accurately deliver high doses of radiation to a moving tumor without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue.

Elekta, Philips Research MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy
Elekta and Royal Philips Electronics announced that The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has...
New ASTRO White Paper Recommends Best Practices for IGRT
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new white paper, “Assuring Safety and Quality in Image Guided Delivery of Radiation Therapy,”...
King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Saudi Arabia Center Advances Radiotherapy Technology with...
In part to address the 12,000 new cancer cases annually in Saudi Arabia – many of them diagnosed at an advanced stage – King Abdulaziz University Hospital is...
Varian Calypso
IGRT Continues to Evolve
The goal of radiation therapy is to deliver ionizing radiation to eradicate the tumor. Ionizing radiation, however, is indiscriminant and causes damage to both...
Enhanced Patient Positioning System Aids Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Today, Brainlab officially unveils the new ExacTrac 6.0 patient positioning system, delivering key improvements for both frameless
FDA Clears MRI-Guided RT System
ViewRay Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) premarket notification clearance for its magnetic resonance guided...
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Elekta, Philips Research MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy
Elekta and Royal Philips Electronics announced that The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has...
New ASTRO White Paper Recommends Best Practices for IGRT
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued a new white paper, “Assuring Safety and Quality in Image Guided Delivery of Radiation Therapy,”...
Varian Calypso
IGRT Continues to Evolve
The goal of radiation therapy is to deliver ionizing radiation to eradicate the tumor. Ionizing radiation, however, is indiscriminant and causes damage to both...
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Installs Protura Robotic...
As radiation treatments have advanced in complexity, cancer treatment facilities have faced greater demands for accuracy and precision in treatment....

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Don’t Miss The Next LIVE Webinar! An Introduction To Cloud-Based Medical Image Exchange
  Seats are limited, register today Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Interested in implementing cloud-based imaging solutions? As a first step, please join DICOM Grid’s Live...
Bedside Radiography-Into the Digital Age
Chip Truwit, MD, offers an overview of Bedside Radiography from a clinical perspective. He will review current radiographic challenges and their effects on bedside imaging, highlighting how new...
Iterative Reconstruction in CT: Understanding and Implementation
Radiation exposure from multidetector CT (MDCT) has become a pressing public health concern in both lay and medical publications. Implementation of iterative reconstruction offers radiologists the...

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