ECRI (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit health services research agency, recently published an evaluation of six ...
Radiation Oncology
Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that uses radiation therapy to treat cancer. The radiation therapy channel covers all aspects of radiation oncology technology. Radiation therapy includes linear accelerators (LINAC), proton therapy, brachytherapy, image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), focused ultrasound, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.
TomoTherapy announced today that it has installed its 100th Hi-Art System in Stratton VA Medical Center, as part of ...
Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at a leading cancer hospital in Taiwan are utilizing Varian’s linear accelerator ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
Initia’s RT announced today that it will introduce at the upcoming ASTRO TrackBeam, a new device that uses collimator- ...
TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced today that the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento ...
Clinical studies conducted in the U.S. and Belgium reveal that endoscopy procedures using sedation can be performed with ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Healthcare employers facing aggressive organizing scored a victory last week with a federal labor ruling that blocks ...
Varian Medical Systems has announced that the company's On-Board Imager (OBI) device for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT ...
Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3-D and 2-D vision systems for use in minimally invasive ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Getting patients to take their medications as directed can cut health-care costs, but improving their pill-taking habits ...
Onmark, a national group purchasing organization (GPO) for community-based practices, has announced the launch of Onmark ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are two of the most common medical ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
Medline Industries Inc. has joined the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to announce increased outreach to ...
TomoPortal is a Web-enabled interface that links directly with the TomoTherapy Hi·Art System to provide immediate ...
Calypso Medical's 4D Localization System utilizes proprietary electromagnetic technology in conjunction with implanted ...
The Sinmed Mastercouch consists of a base that replaces most existing treatment couches. The base is then extended with ...
MVision, from Siemens Medical Solutions, is a volumetric inline target imaging solution and the natural next step in ...
The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion provides a radiosurgical platform for refinement and expansion of procedures in the ...
Kodak will show enhancements to a dosimetry package for the 2000RT CR plus system for radiation oncology. This optional ...
Philips has released Model Based Segmentation (MBS) software for IGRT workflow enhancement. The software will be an ...