May 5, 2011 – At the 2011 European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) exhibition at the ExCel Centre ...
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.
The Moores Cancer Center in San Diego, Calif., and Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland, have both installed CIVCO ...
April 14, 2011 – A class I recall has been issued for the Xoft Axxent Flexishield Mini because the product may shed ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
April 12, 2011 – The time spent on verifying the accuracy of a localized radiation treatment system should never be a ...
April 5, 2011 – The volume of normal brain tissue exposed to radiation during treatment for multiple metastases appears ...
March 31, 2011 – An oncology information system now includes an interface to radiotherapy systems. Elekta’s Mosaiq ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
March 25, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a gamma ray neurosurgery system. The Infini ...
IBA introduced its new Proteus One proton treatment system during ASTRO 2010. It is about one-third the size of current ...
At ASTRO 2010, one of the big topics was how radiation oncology as a profession is in a period of retrenchment due to ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Mike Herman, Ph.D., radiation oncology medical physicist ...
Adding radiation and/or tamoxifen therapy to the treatment plan of women who undergo a lumpectomy for ductal carcinoma ...
March 14, 2011 – Two of the most advanced tools for precise radiotherapy-based treatment are now under one roof in ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
March 14, 2011 – The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) in Madison, Wis., will soon become one of the ...
March 7, 2011 – Accuray, a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, and TomoTherapy Inc., creator of radiation ...
February 24, 2011 – A cancer center in New Zealand has acquired several technology solutions that lets it cut prostate ...
During ASTRO 2010, Nucletron highlighted improvements in its new Oncentra 4.0 treatment planning software and Flexitron ...
February 21, 2011 – TomoTherapy has shipped its 350th treatment system, which will be installed at the Hong Kong ...
February 10, 2011 – For the first time in the UK, cancer patients are starting to receive treatment with Novalis Tx ...
February 10, 2011 – Cancer patients in Bangladesh, a country of 160 million people served by just 11 modern radiotherapy ...
February 3, 2011 – The Siteman Cancer Center at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is the first ...
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