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 therapybrachytherapyimage guided radiation therapy (IGRT)focused ultrasoundstereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.

Sponsored Content | Videos | Radiation Therapy

The new Visicoil MR is a helically-wound, flexible linear fiducial marker. The Visicoil MR hollow core design and ...

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Feature | Proton Therapy | By Jeff Zagoudis

As one of the more precise methods of delivering radiation therapy for cancer treatment, proton therapy has grown at a ...

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Feature | Oncology Information Management Systems (OIMS) | By Jeff Zagoudis

Cancer is perhaps the most highly personal, complex disease in our world today. While the various types of cancer are ...

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Sponsored Content | Case Study | Oncology Information Management Systems (OIMS)

University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands. The hospital provides ...

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Blog | Proton Therapy

The ITN team recently attended the Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA)’s 45th Annual Meeting and ...

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News | PET-CT

September 7, 2017 — Advanced melanoma has a poor prognosis, but immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy can be effective for ...

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News | Patient Positioning Radiation Therapy

September 5, 2017 — Augmenix Inc. announced that Palmetto GBA LLC — the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) ...

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News | Proton Therapy

August 30, 2017 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and the Department of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine, in ...

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News | Brachytherapy Systems, Women's Healthcare

August 30, 2017 — iCAD Inc. announced that the company’s Xoft Axxent balloon applicators have received approval from the ...

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News | Interventional Radiology

August 29, 2017 — Radioembolization is a radiation therapy method used for liver tumors that are uncurable with surgery ...

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News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy

August 22, 2017 — Insightec announced recently that worldwide adoption of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided focused ...

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News | Oncology Diagnostics

August 22, 2017 — A new UCLA study is the first to identify patient and tumor characteristics that predict the ...

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Videos | Information Technology

Melissa Martin, MS, president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), discusses her vision of the ...

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Videos | Proton Therapy

Mark Pankuch, Ph.D., director of medical physics at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, discusses the ...

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News | Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)

August 21, 2017 — Accuray Inc. and the Summit Cancer Center-Boise announced that the center is now treating patients ...

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News | Treatment Planning

August 17, 2017 — The proton center at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital will utilize RayStation for planning on ...

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News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers

August 16, 2017 — In the featured translational article in the August issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine ...

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Technology | Treatment Planning

August 15, 2017 — DOSIsoft SA announced the official release, with CE marking, of ISOgray Treatment Planning System (TPS ...

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News | Radiation Therapy

August 10, 2017 — Accuray Inc. announced that the first studies validating the benefits of the Radixact System were ...

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News | Focused Ultrasound Therapy

August 7, 2017 — Profound Medical Corp. recently announced that all closing conditions have been satisfied and it has ...

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