March 17, 2010 - After 2015, incentive payments for meaningful use will no longer be issued, according to the proposed ...
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.
March 16, 2010 - The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) has re-elected American College of ...
March 16, 2010 - Physicians took new steps toward understanding what patient type would benefit most from Yttrium-90 ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
February 9, 2010 - The chronic side-effects of radiotherapy for early breast cancer are not any worse when treatment is ...
In a short time, the field of radiation oncology has experienced an explosion in imaging data. With large volumes of ...
February 4, 2010 - To improve the safety and quality of cancer treatment, and reduce the chances of medical errors, the ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
January 25, 2010 - With more than 3,000 requests for medical devices to get 510(k) clearance each year, the U.S. Food ...
January 21, 2010 - Staging the cancer, whether it has metastasized to the lymph nodes, is an important prognostic ...
January 20, 2010 - Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Treatments for the disease have ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
January 20, 2010 - First Coast Oncology in Jacksonville, Fla., employs a technique for whole breast irradiation that is ...
In an exclusive interview, Imaging Technology News (ITN) spoke with Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. President and ...
January 13, 2010 – Research validates the efficacy of the recent reclassification of the T category in the International ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
January 11, 2010 - Reirradiation using fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) after previous radiotherapy for head ...
January 11, 2010 - Interventional radiologists at Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock, Ark., recently became one ...
January 5, 2010 – Each year in United States, more than a million new cancer cases are diagnosed. Between 30 and 70 ...
January 5, 2010 - Sexual function in prostate cancer patients receiving external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) decreases ...
The advent of conformal radiotherapies has ushered in an era of image-guided radiotherapy, or IGRT, enabling clinicians ...
December 28, 2009 - An open discussion of the facts about radiation hazards from computed tomography (CT) scanning is ...
December 17, 2009 - Nine radiation oncology equipment manufacturers passed at least one portion of interoperability at ...
December 14, 2009 - Patients with low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who receive accelerated partial breast ...
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