Varian Medical Systems’ exhibit at the 2006 ASTRO meeting focused on the clinical deployment of the company’s technology ...
Radiation Oncology
Radiation oncology is a medical specialty that uses radiation therapy to treat cancer. 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.
Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. officially launched its recently FDA 510(k) cleared Calypso 4D Localization System at ...
Optio Healthcare today announced that Smith Northview Hospital, a 31-bed facility in rural Georgia, has selected Optio's ...
Elekta’s latest linear accelerator, Harmony, is designed to provide a productive and versatile radiotherapy solution for ...
Researchers who thought they had identified the bacterial perpetrator of the often severe disease caused by community ...
Varian Medical Systems announced at ASTRO that it has added new motion management capabilities to the Eclipse ...
Philips announced today at ASTRO the introduction of Panorama 1.0T R/T, a high field open MR simulator, and Tumor ...
Automation is transforming the way we practice radiation oncology and advancing the standard of patient care. There have ...
ECRI (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit health services research agency, recently published an evaluation of six ...
TomoTherapy announced today that it has installed its 100th Hi-Art System in Stratton VA Medical Center, as part of ...
Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at a leading cancer hospital in Taiwan are utilizing Varian’s linear accelerator ...
Treating cancer effectively often includes a combination of patient therapies. In recent years, technology advancements ...
TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced today that the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento ...
Initia’s RT announced today that it will introduce at the upcoming ASTRO TrackBeam, a new device that uses collimator- ...
Onmark, a national group purchasing organization (GPO) for community-based practices, has announced the launch of Onmark ...
Transitioning to a new device vendor can provide improvements to outdated technology and workflow. It also requires a ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are two of the most common medical ...
Medline Industries Inc. has joined the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to announce increased outreach to ...
Clinical studies conducted in the U.S. and Belgium reveal that endoscopy procedures using sedation can be performed with ...
Healthcare employers facing aggressive organizing scored a victory last week with a federal labor ruling that blocks ...
Varian Medical Systems has announced that the company's On-Board Imager (OBI) device for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT ...
Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3-D and 2-D vision systems for use in minimally invasive ...
Getting patients to take their medications as directed can cut health-care costs, but improving their pill-taking habits ...
Kodak will show enhancements to a dosimetry package for the 2000RT CR plus system for radiation oncology. This optional ...