April 12, 2011 – A new online network for physicians has gone live. Quentry, from Brainlab, provides the freedom 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.
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 ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
April 4, 2011 – The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland and Elekta are collaborating to further develop ...
March 31, 2011 – An oncology information system now includes an interface to radiotherapy systems. Elekta’s Mosaiq ...
March 25, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a gamma ray neurosurgery system. The Infini ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
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 ...
American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) President Mike Herman, Ph.D., radiation oncology medical physicist ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
For more than 20 years, radiation oncologists have emphasized the importance of radiation-tolerant heart rhythm devices ...
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 11, 2011 - The prospect of increasing radiation therapy treatment speed using dynamic, arc-based radiation therapy ...
March 10, 2011 – The CDH Proton Center in suburban Chicago can now treat a wider variety of cancer tumors with the ...
March 8, 2011 – Varian Medical Systems and ScandiDos have signed a nonexclusive distributor agreement. The agreement ...
March 8, 2011 – RaySearch Laboratories has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Princess Margaret Hospital ...
March 7, 2011 – Accuray, a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, and TomoTherapy Inc., creator of radiation ...
March 1, 2011 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in favor of Hologic and against SenoRX ...
February 24, 2011 – A cancer center in New Zealand has acquired several technology solutions that lets it cut prostate ...
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