A discussion with Steve Jiang, Ph.D., director of the medical artificial intelligence and automation lab and vice-chair ...
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.
This is an example of how Cherenkov radiation glow can be collected with image intensifier cameras during radiotherapy ...
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Bruce Thomadsen, M.D., professor of medical physics at ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
The Alliance for Proton Therapy Access (APTA) released a national report in late May revealing the heavy emotional and ...
Treatment planning systems are at the heart of radiation therapy (RT) systems and the key to improved patient outcomes ...
For smokers and former smokers, the threat of lung cancer always lurks in the shadows. To flush it out of the darkness ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Computed tomography (CT) has long been the standard of care for imaging to plan radiation therapy (RT) treatments. CT ...
Proton therapy has experienced major growth in the last decade, but that growth seems to have slowed slightly in recent ...
World Cancer Day takes place annually on Feb. 4 to raise awareness and education in the media, governments and people ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Technological and scientific advances in radiation oncology are allowing practitioners to put patients first in profound ...
Chris Toth, president, global commercial and field operations for Varian, takes a tour of Varian’s new product ...
In establishing the new Southeast Cancer Center (Cape Girardeau, Mo.), clinic officials not only had the opportunity to ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
Thirty-three. Twenty-nine. Sixty-four. These are the ages of the breast cancer patients who have walked through the ...
William Hall, M.D., radiation oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical ...
Over the past decade, several clinical studies have shown gadolinium-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast ...
Cancer is perhaps the most highly personal, complex disease in our world today. While the various types of cancer are ...
Each year, up to 650,000 people who were previously diagnosed with various forms of cancer will develop brain metastases ...
Image-guided radiation therapy offers great potential to improve the efficiency of treating cancer patients by more ...
While radiation oncologists have a number of proven techniques at their disposal for treating patients, the reality is ...
In the battle against metastatic prostate cancer, the removal of lymph node metastases using image-guided surgery may ...
August 01, 2018 