May 11, 2010 - Stereotactic radiosurgery using gamma knife is a safe and effective option for selected children with ...
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.
Perhaps there is no other area of medicine that requires as much of a team effort to deliver treatment as radiation ...
April 4, 2010 - Each year, Mayo Clinic neurologists and neurosurgeons care for more than 2,200 patients with brain and ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
April 28, 2010 - Infusing tiny, melanin-covered nanoparticles into patients may protect bone marrow from the harmful ...
April 28, 2010 - New approaches to image-guidance and motion management are making it possible to successfully target ...
April 28, 2010 - Cancer imaging innovation accounted for 40 percent of the reduction in U.S. cancer deaths between 1996 ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
April 23, 2010 - Professor Lars Leksell, the inventor of the Gamma Knife, a radiosurgical instrument, performed the ...
April 21, 2010 - A computerized segmentation system can reliably estimate changes in tumor size on computed tomography ...
April 21, 2010 - Tracking tumor motion is one of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy. Gating is of the most ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
April 21, 2010 - A new platform for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and radiosurgery designed to treat a moving tumor ...
April 21, 2010 - The American College of Radiology (ACR) is presently asking radiologists, radiation oncologists and all ...
Cancer doesn’t discriminate by gender, age or where a person resides. But in many cases, the quality of care a patient ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
April 14, 2010 - A diagnostic imaging center expands its services to offer image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and ...
April 14, 2010 - One of the biggest challenges in radiation therapy is delivering the dose without damaging surrounding ...
April 9, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will no longer allow a third party review process on new ...
April 8, 2010 - Lung tumors have been among the most challenging radiation therapy targets because the patient's ...
April 7, 2010 - The lack of radiation therapy treatment African-American women receive is not responsible for the poorer ...
April 7, 2010 - According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, an estimated 48,000 people in New Jersey and ...
April 6, 2010 - The three-year survival rate for patients receiving stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) was 55.8 ...
April 6, 2010 - Helical TomoTherapy delivers continuous arc-based intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) that ...
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