Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 34

Elekta initiates study on MR radiation therapy for cancer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology vendor Elekta has launched a new study to assess the outcomes of patients who undergo MR-guided radiation therapy with Elekta's Unity system at various cancer centers around the world.

February 4, 2019

FDG-PET/CT or MRI: Which is best for HNSCC recurrence?

By Wayne Forrest

Which modality is the most appropriate choice to diagnose suspected local recurrence of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)? Dutch researchers chose FDG-PET/CT over MRI in a study published in the February issue of the European Journal of Radiology.

February 3, 2019

MVision deploys AI radiation treatment software in Finland

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Finnish company MVision has launched artificial intelligence (AI) software for radiation treatment planning at hospitals in Turku and Helsinki.

January 30, 2019

FDG-PET/CT improves bladder cancer staging

By Wayne Forrest

Combining metabolic and morphologic data from FDG-PET/CT scans can significantly improve the detection of lymph node metastasis in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer before their surgery, according to a French study published online on 21 January in European Radiology.

January 30, 2019

Proton beam therapy begins at U.K. facility

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

A 15-year-old boy with a rare brain tumor became the first patient to undergo treatment at the National Health Service England's new proton beam therapy center at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, U.K., on 23 January.

January 22, 2019

Affidea rolls out new digital tools

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Diagnostic imaging, outpatient, and cancer care services provider Affidea Group has launched two new applications to digitize operations and enhance productivity.

January 15, 2019

Deep learning enables automatic radiotherapy planning

By Cynthia E. Keen

A multi-institutional team has developed an automated treatment planning system for intensity-modulated radiation therapy based on 3D dose prediction and dose distribution-based optimization. The researchers demonstrated that the deep-learning-based method shows promise for generating highly individualized radiotherapy plans optimized for precision and quality.

January 9, 2019

Sun Nuclear signs contract with Belgian cancer network

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology software developer Sun Nuclear announced that Iridium Cancer Network in Belgium will serve as a reference site for its SunCheck enterprise quality management software.

January 8, 2019

IBA secures Belgian ProteusOne contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Proton therapy developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has won a contract to install its ProteusOne compact intensity-modulated proton therapy device in Charleroi, Belgium.

December 20, 2018

MRI guidance is feasible for proton therapy

By Tami Freeman, PhD

MR guidance is emerging as a powerful tool for real-time monitoring of radiation treatments, offering excellent soft-tissue contrast and the ability to track intrafractional tumor motion. Hybrid devices for MR-guided photon-based radiotherapy are now in clinical use. But to date, no such combined system exists for proton therapy.

December 20, 2018

Fukushima study sheds light on childhood thyroid cancer

By Philip Ward

The latest results of mass ultrasound screening of children for thyroid cancer after the Fukushima disaster were published online on 29 November by JAMA Otolaryngology. The study provides vital data on thyroid cancer, but may lead to more demands outside of Japan for ultrasound scans in younger people, increasing the risk of overdiagnosis.

November 28, 2018

DOSIsoft gets FDA OK for ThinkQA-EPIbeam, updates Planet Dose

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology and nuclear medicine software provider DOSIsoft has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its ThinkQA-EPIbeam modular software suite and has also launched an updated version of its Planet Dose dosimetry system for molecular radiotherapy.

November 27, 2018

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