The World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety (Solutions), the World Alliance for Patient ...
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.
The University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center is among the first cancer centers in the ...
Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced the Axiom Luminos dRF, a new remote fluoroscopy system with flat detector ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
University of Pennsylvania alumni Ralph J. Roberts and his son Brian L. Roberts have pledged $15 million to help create ...
Varian Medical Systems’ exhibit at the 2006 ASTRO meeting focused on the clinical deployment of the company’s technology ...
The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion provides a radiosurgical platform for refinement and expansion of procedures in the ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Researchers who thought they had identified the bacterial perpetrator of the often severe disease caused by community ...
Varian Medical Systems announced at ASTRO that it has added new motion management capabilities to the Eclipse ...
Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. officially launched its recently FDA 510(k) cleared Calypso 4D Localization System at ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Optio Healthcare today announced that Smith Northview Hospital, a 31-bed facility in rural Georgia, has selected Optio's ...
Philips announced today at ASTRO the introduction of Panorama 1.0T R/T, a high field open MR simulator, and Tumor ...
ECRI (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit health services research agency, recently published an evaluation of six ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
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 ...
TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced today that the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento ...
Initia’s RT announced today that it will introduce at the upcoming ASTRO TrackBeam, a new device that uses collimator- ...
Healthcare employers facing aggressive organizing scored a victory last week with a federal labor ruling that blocks ...
Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3-D and 2-D vision systems for use in minimally invasive ...
Varian Medical Systems has announced that the company's On-Board Imager (OBI) device for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT ...
Getting patients to take their medications as directed can cut health-care costs, but improving their pill-taking habits ...