Radiation Oncology/Therapy: Page 46

First Australian MRI-linac proves feasible

By Jude Dineley

Real-time image guidance of radiotherapy using MRI promises dramatically improved tumor targeting and an increase in the number of treatable disease sites. An MR-guided cobalt-60 unit is already in clinical use and three groups are developing integrated MRI-linac systems.

October 23, 2016

IBA delivers cyclotron for proton therapy to Russia

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Proton therapy developer Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has completed installation of its Cyclone 230 cyclotron for a new proton therapy center in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.

October 18, 2016

Elekta lands large order from India

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Elekta has received an order from the All India Institute of Medical Science for seven of its Versa HD linear accelerators and six of its microSelectron brachytherapy systems.

October 17, 2016

Oncology Systems aids prostate cancer trial

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Oncology Systems is supplying its SpaceOAR hydrogel radiotherapy system to Belfast City Hospital in the U.K. as part of a National Health Service-sponsored trial.

October 12, 2016

Elekta to install MR-linac in the U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology firm Elekta and The Christie National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust have begun installation of an investigational high-field MR-adaptive linear accelerator (MR-linac) system at The Christie.

October 12, 2016

Sirtex cancer treatment added to ESMO guidelines

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Cancer treatment firm Sirtex Medical said the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) has included the company's yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres as an option in new guidelines for the treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA).

October 11, 2016