Stanford Hospital and Clinics announced yesterday that it put in an order for a portable, self-shielding electron-beam ...
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.
Siemens announced today that is has been named a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the seventh ...
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has announced the 2006 recipients of the 2006 Junior ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
The Saad Centre for Radiography Clinical Skills Education in London opened yesterday, and is backed by equipment donated ...
Cancer patients in India can now receive IGRT treatments with the arrival of Varian’s Clinac iX linear accelerator ...
Varian Medical Systems Inc. has received FDA clearance that permits the use of the company’s Trilogy linear accelerators ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Clinicians at the Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center use new image-guided radiosurgery (IGRS) ...
The Probeat Proton Beam Therapy System by Hitachi recently got the green light from the FDA. Probeat delivers a proton ...
MVision megavoltage cone-beam imaging package has received FDA clearance. MVision is a unique volumetric inline target ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
NOMOS Radiation Oncology, a division of North American Scientific, has announced that it received FDA clearance to ...
XKnife RT 4.0 is an update to XKnife RT 3.0, which is used by neurosurgeons, oncologists, physicists and dosimetrists ...
Eclipse radiotherapy treatment planning software includes a set of treatment plan templates that can streamline the ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
Elekta now offers a 6-D robotic image-guided stereotactic system optimized for treatment of the spine. The AXESSE system ...
TomoGateway is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection that allows direct communication from each TomoTherapy Hi-Art ...
IBM is working with researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson ...
Imaging control capabilities for 3-D Conformal, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) and dynamic targeting for Image ...
The 4D Localization System is a target localization platform based on detection of AC electromagnetic markers, called ...
The ARIA Oncology Information Management System is a comprehensive real-time management system and database product for ...
Eclipse Integrated Treatment Planning supports multiple image modalities including CT, MR, PET and SPECT. Images can be ...
iPlan Flow software facilitates targeted drug delivery to specific areas of the brain which, according to BrainLAB, can ...