Radiation Oncology

Radiation Oncology

Radiation Oncology

Antique Radiation Therapy Device Causes Concern in Pennsylvania

February 2, 2012 – Health and environmental concerns were raised after a radiation detector at a Waste Management Inc. (WMI) facility led to the discovery of an early radiation therapy medical kit someone threw out in the trash in Pennsylvani...

Barnes Jewish Hospital Receives World’s First Superconducting Synchrocyclotron for Proton Therapy

November 2, 2011 — Mevion Medical Systems announced it has delivered the world's first superconducting synchrocyclotron to the S. Lee Kling Center for Proton Therapy at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University...

Two Top Cancer Centers Install Robotic Patient Positioning System

The Moores Cancer Center in San Diego, Calif., and Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland, have both installed CIVCO Medical Solutions' Protura Robotic Patient Positioning System and Universal Couchtop (UCT).

Laser Alignment System Released for Prone Breast Platform

A new laser alignment system has been released for Orbital Therapy’s ClearVue prone breast platform.

Elekta Receives FDA Clearance for Clarity 3-D Ultrasound...
February 21, 2012 — Clarity soft tissue visualization system now provides an autoscan option for automated ultrasound scanning from outside of the treatment...
Theragenics Acquires Core Oncology’s Prostate Brachytherapy...
February 21, 2012 — Theragenics Corp., a medical device company serving the surgical products and prostate cancer treatment markets, announced that it has...
microSelectron Digital Brachytherapy Afterloader Receives...
February 21, 2012 ⎯ Nucletron, an Elekta company, announced that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) granted Shonin approval to market...
Elekta's Fraxion System Brings Immobilization Options...
February 20, 2012 — The Fraxion head frame helps ensure accuracy and precision in stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) of cancer targets in the brain and...
Elekta Received FDA Clearance for Clarity 3-D Ultrasound With Autoscan to Guide Prostate Radiotherapy
Clarity soft tissue visualization system now provides an autoscan option for automated ultrasound scanning from outside of the treatment
Elekta's Fraxion System Brings Immobilization Options Into a Single Solution for Brain Radiation Therapy
The Fraxion head frame helps ensure accuracy and precision in stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) of cancer targets in the brain and...
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Antique Radiation Therapy Device Causes Concern in...
February 2, 2012 – Health and environmental concerns were raised after a radiation detector at a Waste Management Inc. (WMI) facility led to the discovery...
The Impact of IMRT
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) emerged as a new way to treat patients in the late 1990s and garnered attention because it offered the possibility...
Multi-Site Study to Evaluate Targeted Radiation for Prostate
Five leading cancer institutions are taking part in the first multi-institutional Phase II study of hypofractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT...
SBRT with Real-Time Target Tracking
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is an investigational radiotherapy modality for the treatment of localized prostate cancer. Conventional...

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MDCT Imaging 2012: Advancing the Science of Imaging
As modern multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) becomes a primary imaging modality across all specialties, there has been increased focus on lowering the radiation dose required to create...
Initial Experience with 3T Wide Bore System in High-Resolution MSK MRI
The presentation is designed to introduce the audience to the new wide bore 3T MRI systems recently brought to market. The new systems offer several advantages including improved field homogeneity,...
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