The global proton therapy market hit a major milestone in 2015, eclipsing the billion-dollar mark for sales orders and ...
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.
Erlanger Health Systems in Chattanooga, Tenn., purchased a CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System in December 2010 to ...
Cardio-oncology is an emerging field that combines the expertise of both cardiology and oncology to assess and treat ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
Respiratory motion presents a number of challenges in the delivery of radiotherapy to certain thoracic or abdominal ...
August 18, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its ...
AAPM President Bruce Curran, MEng, FAAPM, FACMP, FACR, discusses the key topics at the 2016 meeting of the American ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
Treatment planning systems are at the heart of radiation therapy (RT) and the key to improved patient outcomes. Once ...
As radiation therapy continues to evolve, new techniques and technologies are largely focused on maximizing the dose to ...
As proton therapy becomes more widely available, imaging for the development of proton treatment plans will become more ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Like with many other aspects of healthcare, technology has been the driving force behind the evolution of radiation ...
February 29, 2016 — At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2016 meeting (HIMSS16), Elekta will ...
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2015 annual meeting drew a crowd of more than 11,000 attendees. This ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
Computed tomography (CT) has long been the gold standard for image acquisition during radiation therapy treatment ...
A new template published by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) standardizes and streamlines the ...
Varian offered an overview of its new technology offerings at ASTRO 2015. These include advancements in analytics ...
A new template published by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) standardizes and streamlines the ...
CIRS ATOM phantoms are a full line of anthropomorphic, cross sectional dosimetry phantoms designed to investigate organ ...
Samsung NeuroLogica Corporation, the healthcare subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and a leading provider of ...
Now, for the first time, UCLA researchers have described cost across an entire care process for low-risk prostate cancer ...
RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announced today that The US Oncology Network, one of America’s largest networks of ...
September 07, 2016 