Radiation Therapy

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.

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April 14, 2011 – A class I recall has been issued for the Xoft Axxent Flexishield Mini because the product may shed ...

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April 12, 2011 – The time spent on verifying the accuracy of a localized radiation treatment system should never be a ...

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April 5, 2011 – The volume of normal brain tissue exposed to radiation during treatment for multiple metastases appears ...

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Technology

March 31, 2011 – An oncology information system now includes an interface to radiotherapy systems. Elekta’s Mosaiq ...

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March 25, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a gamma ray neurosurgery system. The Infini ...

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Videos | Proton Therapy

IBA introduced its new Proteus One proton treatment system during ASTRO 2010. It is about one-third the size of current ...

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At ASTRO 2010, one of the big topics was how radiation oncology as a profession is in a period of retrenchment due to ...

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American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Mike Herman, Ph.D., radiation oncology medical physicist ...

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Adding radiation and/or tamoxifen therapy to the treatment plan of women who undergo a lumpectomy for ductal carcinoma ...

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March 14, 2011 – Two of the most advanced tools for precise radiotherapy-based treatment are now under one roof in ...

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March 14, 2011 – The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) in Madison, Wis., will soon become one of the ...

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March 7, 2011 – Accuray, a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, and TomoTherapy Inc., creator of radiation ...

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February 24, 2011 – A cancer center in New Zealand has acquired several technology solutions that lets it cut prostate ...

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Technology

During ASTRO 2010, Nucletron highlighted improvements in its new Oncentra 4.0 treatment planning software and Flexitron ...

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February 21, 2011 – TomoTherapy has shipped its 350th treatment system, which will be installed at the Hong Kong ...

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February 10, 2011 – For the first time in the UK, cancer patients are starting to receive treatment with Novalis Tx ...

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February 10, 2011 – Cancer patients in Bangladesh, a country of 160 million people served by just 11 modern radiotherapy ...

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February 3, 2011 – The Siteman Cancer Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is the first ...

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January 31, 2011 – An oncology systems provider has launched The Year of Radiotherapy, an initiative to raise awareness ...

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January 31, 2011 – A patient-specific cranial immobilization system has received the CE mark. The Fraxion head frame, by ...

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