Computed tomography (CT) has long been the...
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.
Metal artifact reduction led to a 20 percent increase in the planning target volume (PTV) in this prostate cancer case from Henry Ford Health System. The volume of the healthy bladder tissue to be spared was also reduced by 4 percent.
Feature | Computed Tomography (CT) | May 03, 2018 | By Jeff Zagoudis
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | April 30, 2018
April 30, 2018 — ViewRay Inc. announced new...
News | Proton Therapy | April 27, 2018
April 27, 2018 — For the first time, cancer patients in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region have access to...
Technology | Quality Assurance (QA) | April 27, 2018
April 27, 2018 — Sun Nuclear Corp. released significant new functionality for its SunCheck Platform for patient and...
News | Treatment Planning | April 27, 2018
April 27, 2018 — In the first World Championships of Treatment Planning, arranged by...
News | Treatment Planning | April 24, 2018
April 24, 2018 — Brainlab announced the implementation of a software solution that can achieve better...
News | Oncology Information Management Systems (OIMS) | April 20, 2018
April 20, 2018 — Elekta announced that it is making a strategic investment in PalabraApps LLC to advance the...
This image, taken with Canon’s Aquilion One, shows a lung with metastases from bowel cancer. Image courtesy of Canon.
Feature | Lung Cancer | April 18, 2018 | Jeff Zagoudis
In recent years, low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening has emerged as a proven, effective method to detect...
Technology | Treatment Planning | April 16, 2018
April 16, 2018 — Varian announced a new version of its Velocity cancer imaging software that includes Rapidsphere, a...
News | Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) | April 06, 2018
April 6, 2018 — Accuray Inc. and Erasmus MC announced the first patient has been successfully treated using an...
News | Proton Therapy | April 05, 2018
April 5, 2018 — Mevion Medical Systems announced the treatment of the first patient in the world on the Mevion S250i...
News | Radiation Therapy | April 05, 2018
April 5, 2018 – The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued an update to its clinical guideline for...
News | Prostate Cancer | March 27, 2018
March 27, 2018 — While there are many treatment options for men with...
News | Radiation Therapy | March 26, 2018
March 26, 2018 — Medical school students receive little formal instruction in...
News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) | March 21, 2018
March 21, 2018 — ViewRay Inc. recently announced that the company received Shonin approval from the Japanese...
News | Radiation Therapy | March 12, 2018
March 12, 2018 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued a new clinical guideline for the...
In scans of a 62-yr-old man with Gleason 4+3 PCa treated with radical prostatectomy, with rising PSA level (1.32) and PSA doubling time of 3.7 months, 64CuCl2-PET/CT images revealed 2 positive small left iliac lymph nodes (A,C), whereas 18F-Choline PET/CT (B,D) was negative (arrows). Image courtesy of A Piccardo et al., Galliera Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
News | Prostate Cancer | March 07, 2018
An Italian study featured in the March...
MEDraysintell released a report in January revising its projection for the number of proton therapy centers worldwide by 2030 down from 1,200 to 900. The company said that more than 50 proton therapy treatment rooms would need to be opened every year from 2018 to 2030 to hit the original projection of 1,200.
Feature | Proton Therapy | March 06, 2018 | By Jeff Zagoudis
Proton therapy has experienced major growth in the last decade, but that growth seems to have slowed slightly in...
