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 therapybrachytherapyimage guided radiation therapy (IGRT)focused ultrasoundstereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), treatment planning systems and tomotherapy.

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Varian Medical Systems’ exhibit at the 2006 ASTRO meeting focused on the clinical deployment of the company’s technology ...

Time December 03, 2006
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Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc. officially launched its recently FDA 510(k) cleared Calypso 4D Localization System at ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Optio Healthcare today announced that Smith Northview Hospital, a 31-bed facility in rural Georgia, has selected Optio's ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Researchers who thought they had identified the bacterial perpetrator of the often severe disease caused by community ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Varian Medical Systems announced at ASTRO that it has added new motion management capabilities to the Eclipse ...

Time November 06, 2006
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Philips announced today at ASTRO the introduction of Panorama 1.0T R/T, a high field open MR simulator, and Tumor ...

Time November 05, 2006
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ECRI (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit health services research agency, recently published an evaluation of six ...

Time October 31, 2006
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TomoTherapy announced today that it has installed its 100th Hi-Art System in Stratton VA Medical Center, as part of ...

Time October 30, 2006
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Neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists at a leading cancer hospital in Taiwan are utilizing Varian’s linear accelerator ...

Time October 29, 2006
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TeraMedica Healthcare Technology announced today that the University of California-Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento ...

Time October 25, 2006
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Initia’s RT announced today that it will introduce at the upcoming ASTRO TrackBeam, a new device that uses collimator- ...

Time October 25, 2006
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Onmark, a national group purchasing organization (GPO) for community-based practices, has announced the launch of Onmark ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and congestive heart failure (CHF) are two of the most common medical ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Medline Industries Inc. has joined the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to announce increased outreach to ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Clinical studies conducted in the U.S. and Belgium reveal that endoscopy procedures using sedation can be performed with ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Healthcare employers facing aggressive organizing scored a victory last week with a federal labor ruling that blocks ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Varian Medical Systems has announced that the company's On-Board Imager (OBI) device for image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Viking Systems Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of 3-D and 2-D vision systems for use in minimally invasive ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Getting patients to take their medications as directed can cut health-care costs, but improving their pill-taking habits ...

Time October 22, 2006
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Kodak will show enhancements to a dosimetry package for the 2000RT CR plus system for radiation oncology. This optional ...

Time October 13, 2006
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