February 16, 2016 – A superconducting synchrocyclotron proton accelerator was delivered Valentine’s Day weekend to ...
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.
After five years of almost constant lobbying efforts and numerous attempts by the U.S. House to push through a repeal of ...
February 10, 2016 — Elekta took the first place ranking in radiation therapy in KLAS's 2015 Best in KLAS Awards: Medical ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
February 10, 2016 — Cancer patients who miss two or more radiation therapy sessions have a worse outcome than fully ...
February 9, 2016 — Head and neck cancers that test positive for the herpes papilloma virus (HPV) are known to respond ...
February 8, 2016 — The ASRT Foundation’s 30th anniversary celebration campaign reached a major milestone in January with ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
February 4, 2016 — RAD Technology Medical Systems (RAD) has added a new patent to its expanding portfolio of modular ...
February 4, 2016 — The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) announced the establishment of the Maryland ...
February 3, 2016 — The nuclear medicine, proton therapy and brachytherapy markets represent less than 0.1 percent of ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2015 annual meeting drew a crowd of more than 11,000 attendees. This ...
Computed tomography (CT) has long been the gold standard for image acquisition during radiation therapy treatment ...
February 2, 2016 — Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have found ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
February 1, 2016 — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has established a new Electrical Prescription ...
January 29, 2016 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently welcomed Judy Keen, Ph.D., as its ...
As proton therapy becomes more widely available, imaging for the development of proton treatment plans will become more ...
January 27, 2016 — Bestselling author John Grisham has written "The Tumor," a fictional account of how a real medical ...
January 26, 2016 — A phase 1 trial examining precision hypofractionated radiation therapy (RT) in locally advanced non ...
January 25, 2016 — gKteso introduces two models of the Radiotherapy Patient System (RPS) 6-D robotic couch for ...
At ASTRO 2015, Mevion highlighted the exceptional results its customers are seeing with the Mevion S250 Series proton ...
January 20, 2016 — A lengthy review of increasing medical evidence shows that cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and ...
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