Bionix Radiation Therapy’s Prone Breast System utilizes prone positioning for breast treatment to deliver less irradiation to the lung, cardiac tissue and contralateral breast. Gravity is utilized to separate cancerous masses from surrounding lung and cardiac tissue and for greater reproducibility of the breast being treated.
Xoft Inc. recently received FDA clearance for applicators to be used with the Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System for ...
Calypso Medical's implantable Beacon electromagnetic transponders received a new FDA indication for the use of with the Calypso System in external beam radiation therapy.
Radiology departments have many different needs and face a wide variety of challenges that can impact their departments ...
August 1, 2008 – BSD Medical Corp. said its BSD-2000/3D/MR cancer treatment system has been adapted to treat children ...
Elekta recently received FDA clearance for its Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). Reportedly empowering clinicians ...
TQA, or Tomo Quality Assurance, is reportedly the first integrated, machine-specific quality assurance (QA) solution to be offered by a radiation therapy vendor. The TQA application streamlines the collection and simplifies the review of data used to monitor radiation therapy equipment and procedures. All TQA data can be exported for third-party validation.
Despite decades of progress in breast imaging, one challenge continues to test even the most skilled radiologists ...
July 31, 2008 - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. today offered $4.5 billion in cash for its cancer drug partner, ImClone Systems ...
BrainLAB said it received 510(k) clearance for its Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Algorithm, which is already being used ...
BrachySciences recently introduced its AnchorSeed, which features a patent pending design intended to give existing low dose rate prostate brachytherapy sources the ability to maintain their position within tissue, thereby allowing physicians to confidently place seeds in more strategic and beneficial locations than in the past.
Bayer Radiology’s Barbara Ruhland and Thom Kinst discuss how radiology departments can address the many different ...
August 1, 2008 – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday issued a final ruling for three new ...
Nucletron said the FDA cleared its Oncentra Brachy, a comprehensive volume-based treatment planning solution designed to ...
Varian Medical Systems will be exhibiting its complete line of hardware, software, and applicators for HDR and LDR brachytherapy, including the VariSource iX, GammaMedplus iX and the GammaMedplus 3/24 iX HDR afterloaders, the BrachyVision treatment planning system plus the Vitesse module for using transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images as the basis for a prostate cancer treatment plan.
eHealth Saskatchewan plays a vital role in providing IT services to patients, health care providers, and partners such ...
July 31, 2008 - According to a recent study at the Mayo Clinic, a CT scanner called MiniCAT captures images at a dose ...
Elekta's eXtend program is a complete system for extending the utilization of Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion.
The Bionix Comfort Hold Thigh and Foot Positioner is the newest product in the line of patient positioning devices from ...
Varian’s Clinac and Trilogy medical linear accelerators are highly versatile radiotherapy treatment delivery machines ...
July 30, 2008 - The International Brain Mapping and Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society (IBMISPS) presented GE ...
MiniCAT, a CT system developed by Xoran Technologies, captures images at a dose nearly 10 to 12 times lower than ...
Radiology Oncology Systems Inc. announces it will be distributing the LinaTech/Topslane product line of treatment ...
July 31, 2008 — eHealth Global Technologies released its eHealthConnect online request service designed to streamline ...
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