October 18, 2012 — Accuray Inc. announced the resignation of Euan S. Thomson as president and CEO, and director of the ...
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 therapy, brachytherapy, image guided radiation therapy (IGRT), focused ultrasound, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.
October 16, 2012 — The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has issued an updated practice ...
October 15, 2012 — For many people the words “proton therapy” may conjure up images of some type of high-tech treatment ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
LXcan is designed to be the ideal solution for QA of image display devices. It features distance and contact measurement ...
IQQA-Guide (works-in-progress) is a real-time 3-D image-guidance system that utilizes the company’s award-winning ...
October 12, 2012 – The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has named Mark P. Carol, M.D., a distinguished ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
October 10, 2012 — At the opening of the 2012 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) annual meeting in Chicago, Elekta ...
October 4, 2012 — Less than three months after beginning clinical use of their Elekta Agility 160-leaf multi-leaf ...
September 28, 2012 — On Sept. 3, three patients became Gleneagles Hospital's first to receive their radiation therapy ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
Sept. 25, 2012 — The most comprehensive analysis yet of breast cancer shows that one of the most deadly subtypes is ...
September 24, 2012 — Three Texas healthcare leaders announced new details of their plan to provide cancer patients with ...
September 19, 2012 — Elekta recently announced the latest production release of its Monaco treatment planning system ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
September 7, 2012 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announces that version 3.0 of RaySearch’s RayStation treatment planning ...
As radiation treatments have advanced in complexity, cancer treatment facilities have faced greater demands for accuracy ...
The external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) market has been active in recent months, with advances in techniques, devices and ...
The preferred treatment for patients with operable lung cancer is surgical resection. However, many lung cancer patients ...
August 29, 2012 — Varian Medical Systems announced that it has become a supporter of a phase III study comparing ...
August 29, 2012 — The ability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create exquisite images of the body’s soft tissues ...
We want absolutes; things we can depend on; certainties in an unfortunately uncertain world. It’s the kind of faith we ...
Dr. Gary Ezzell, president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), talks about current trends in ...