December 28, 2012 — Elekta announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Clarity 4D Monitoring software. Physicians will now be able to monitor the motion of the prostate and surrounding tissues and organs – in real-time and with sub-millimeter accuracy – during the delivery of therapeutic radiation beams.

Clarity 4-D Monitoring software

December 28, 2012 — Accuray Inc. announced clinical findings using noninvasive CyberKnife stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for the treatment of prostate cancer. Two studies were presented at the 54th annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Boston at a prostate-focused press conference, for which the use of CyberKnife SBRT for prostate cancer represented half of the press conference’s focus.

Pro-Kinetic Energy stent


December 27, 2012 — A new way to use MRI scans may help determine whether dementia is Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia, according to new research published in the Dec. 26, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

 
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