Lead author Jan Lagendijk (left) and first author Bas Raaymakers from UMC Utrecht. (Courtesy: UMC Utrecht) A research paper describing the first clinical use of a 1.5 T MRI-Linac for MRI-guided ...
BOSTON — On a recent Wednesday morning at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a team of two radiation therapists, a radiation oncologist, and a physicist sat glued to a screen filled with black-and-white ...
Canadian scientists are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or "linacs," which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 27, 2009 -- Canadian scientists at the University of Alberta's Cross Cancer Institute are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical ...
Radiation therapy plan from the MRI-linac treatment planning system. (Courtesy: Pract. Radiat. Oncol. 10.1016/j.prro.2019.02.003) Researchers in the US have used MRI-guided radiation therapy (MR-IGRT) ...
CLEVELAND, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY) announced today that the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio has purchased the MRIdian® Linac MRI-Guided ...
BARCELONA, April 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) today announced that its transformative MR-linac system is featured in 42 abstracts at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology ...
The MRI-Linac combines the imaging capabilities of an MRI with the cancer-fighting powers of a linear accelerator. Donald Trump's remarks about Putin leave Russian state TV stunned Dumb Things In The ...
Daily imaging used to track cancer tumor changes can allow for more rapid radiation treatment adaptation, according to a study published Sept. 30 in International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology ...