In part to address the 12,000 new cancer cases annually in Saudi Arabia – many of them diagnosed at an advanced stage – ...
Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) includes using imaging during radiation therapy to direct and improve the precision and accuracy of the radiation treatment plan.
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February 13, 2013 
Feature | John Wong, Ph.D.
The goal of radiation therapy is to deliver ionizing radiation to eradicate the tumor. Ionizing radiation, however, is ...
February 08, 2013 News
January 25, 2013 — Elekta and Philips Healthcare announced The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston ...
January 25, 2013 
Case Study
As radiation treatments have advanced in complexity, cancer treatment facilities have faced greater demands for accuracy ...
September 05, 2012 
Feature | Joost Nuyttens, M.D., Ph.D.
The preferred treatment for patients with operable lung cancer is surgical resection. However, many lung cancer patients ...
September 05, 2012 
Feature
August 23, 2012 — Varian Medical Systems is establishing an in-country subsidiary in South Korea. Varian Medical Systems ...
August 24, 2012 
Feature
August 21, 2012 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) officially opened its International Competence Center (ICC) in July ...
August 21, 2012 
Technology
July 27, 2012 — Today, Brainlab officially unveils the new ExacTrac 6.0 patient positioning system, delivering key ...
July 27, 2012 
Case Study
Each year, community cancer centers treat about 85 percent of cancer patients in the United States.1 Agnesian HealthCare ...
July 24, 2012 
Technology
May 30, 2012 — ViewRay Inc., a privately held medical device company, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
May 30, 2012 
News
April 25, 2012 – Varian Medical Systems and Siemens Healthcare today announced the signing of a strategic global ...
April 26, 2012 
Feature | Michael Gensheimer, M.D.; Mark Phillips,
In arc therapy, a linear accelerator gantry moves in a continuous arc around the target while delivering radiation dose ...
April 03, 2012 
Case Study
Each year, community cancer centers treat about 85% of cancer patients in the United States.1 Agnesian HealthCare Cancer ...
March 14, 2012 
Feature | Mary Beth Nevulis
Radiotherapy (RT) as a way to treat cancer is growing as a field, now that its accuracy has been improving. One reason ...
March 14, 2012 
News
March 14, 2012 — ViewRay said it received $45 million in new financing to help speed development of its magnetic ...
March 14, 2012 
Feature | Helen Kuhl
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) emerged as a new way to treat patients in the late 1990s and garnered ...
January 31, 2012 Case Study
Sponsored by AccurayDr. Lyle Harrison is no stranger to the challenges of delivering healthcare to patients in rural ...
September 09, 2011 Feature | David Shepard, M.D., Director of Medical
In radiation therapy, the use of rotational beam delivery provides greater flexibility in shaping radiation dose ...
September 09, 2011 
Feature | By Ke Sheng, Ph.D.; Wensha Yang, Ph.D.;
In the United States, approximately 1.53 million people were diagnosed with cancer and more than 569,000 died of the ...
June 29, 2011 
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May 23, 2011 - The core technology of ViewRay Inc., a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiotherapy ...
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