The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2015 annual meeting drew a crowd of more than 11,000 attendees. This ...
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.
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 ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
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 ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
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 ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) announced that the newly opened Texas Center for Proton Therapy is now treating cancer ...
In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine ...
Low-risk prostate cancer patients in Canada may be opting for treatment with major life-changing side-effects without ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
A prospective study of guideline-based postoperative image-guided intensity modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) in ...
The unfortunate reality of living with cancer is that oftentimes, the treatment can be just as much of a burden for ...
The current state of proton therapy can be assessed fairly quickly by looking at a map: At the end of 2014, there were ...
The use of radiation therapy to treat cancer has been in existence for over a century, tracing back to the early days of ...
Elekta announced that Providence Health and Services in Renton, Wash., the nation's third largest not-for-profit health ...
Joseph Deasy, Ph.D., discusses his study on dose-volume relations for late rectal bleeding in 1,001 patients from five ...
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President John Boone, Ph.D., discusses the impact of imaging in ...
July 17, 2015 - Accuray Inc. announced that studies on the clinical use of the CyberKnife System continue to demonstrate ...
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