September 15, 2015 — Hitachi Ltd. announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for ...
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 current state of proton therapy can be assessed fairly quickly by looking at a map: At the end of 2014, there were ...
The use of radiation therapy to treat cancer has been in existence for over a century, tracing back to the early days of ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
Women who have breast cancer on their left side present a particular challenge to radiation oncologists. Studies have ...
September 9, 2015 — Ninety-six percent of clinics and hospitals in the United States that have purchased used or ...
September 9, 2015 — Varian Medical Systems is collaborating with two leading Cape Town universities to launch Africa's ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
September 8, 2015 — Brainlab announced that its Automatic Brain Metastases Planning software has been used for the first ...
Plan optimization and dose calculation for complex VMAT plans are computationally challenging tasks. Depending on the ...
September 4, 2015 — Gustave Roussy has awarded Elekta with an order for four Versa HD linear accelerators, replacing ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
September 3, 2015 — Mobius Medical Systems recently released DoseLab version 6.7. This new release adds significant ...
September 2, 2015 — Significant national and international momentum is building to include a proton therapy unit as part ...
September 2, 2015 — Varian Medical Systems has added a new cloud-based toolkit to the company's OncoPeer interactive ...
The Radiation Oncology department at Missouri’s Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph treats 50-60 patients per day and ...
September 2, 2015 — Men with relatively unaggressive prostate tumors whose disease is carefully monitored by urologists ...
September 1, 2015 — University of Maryland Medicine and its Center for Metabolic Imaging and Image-Guided Therapeutics ...
September 1, 2015 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 57th annual meeting will be held at the ...
Most people assume strokes only happen to octogenarians, but recent evidence suggests that survivors of childhood cancer ...
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected seven leading physician-researchers to receive a total ...
OncoPeer Developer Cloud is a place for developers and the Varian research team to come together to support and advance ...
Accuray Incorporated has received a multi-system order from 21st Century Oncology for one CyberKnife M6 and four TomoHDA ...
C4 Imaging LLC today announced it has been awarded a $1.32 Million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research ("SBIR") ...