Improved installation processes employ a team approach Matching to an existing linac reduces time-consuming acceptance and commissioning steps Centers with linac “clones” gain redundancy to deal with unexpected downtime At the UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, Elekta…
When the word “technologist” is in your professional title, many might assume you deal almost exclusively with machines and technology your entire workday. However, in the case of a radiation therapy technologist (RTT), dealing with sophisticated treatment devices is only…
At the 2017 Elekta Australasian User Meeting (Newcastle, New South Wales, Nov. 10-12), Charge Radiation Therapist Karen Daly – of Olivia Newton-John (ONJ) Cancer Wellness & Research Centre’s Austin Health Radiation Oncology (Melbourne) – won the region’s first ever Monaco…
Like most radiation therapists, Christel Tyree is confident in her ability to master the complexities of medical technology. As a therapist at The Barret Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati Health, she spent eight years operating Varian technology and viewed learning…
Doctors at The University of Tokyo Hospital (UTH) are using the High Dose Rate mode (Flattening Filter-Free) on their two Elekta linear accelerators to enable rapid, high-dose prostate SBRT with VMAT delivery in just 90 seconds of beam-on time. Equally…
For stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) of liver tumors, tumor motion induced by respiration must be taken into account in planning and treatment. Liver tumor motion at the planning simulation represents liver tumor motion during SBRT. Inter- and intrafractional liver…
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