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Technique shows promise of earlier quantification of a brain tumor’s responsiveness to radiotherapy MR/RT

Technique shows promise of earlier quantification of a brain tumor’s responsiveness to radiotherapy

Jan 20, 2022 7 minute read
Belgian clinic enhances confidence with faster, easier end-to-end patient QA Radiotherapy

Belgian clinic enhances confidence with faster, easier end-to-end patient QA

Dec 23, 2021 6 minute read
Tailor-made treatment fit Lyn like a glove MR/RT

Tailor-made treatment fit Lyn like a glove

Dec 6, 2021 2 minute read

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Technique shows promise of earlier quantification of a brain tumor’s responsiveness to radiotherapy MR/RT

Technique shows promise of earlier quantification of a brain tumor’s responsiveness to radiotherapy

Investigators at Sunnybrook Research Institute (Toronto, Canada) are the world’s first to employ – on their 1.5T Elekta Unity system – a sophisticated MRI technique…

Jan 20, 2022 7 minute read
Belgian clinic enhances confidence with faster, easier end-to-end patient QA Radiotherapy

Belgian clinic enhances confidence with faster, easier end-to-end patient QA

Elekta Patient QA solutions not only enhance confidence in treatments at the radiation therapy department of Grand Hôpital de Charleroi Gilly, Belgium, but they also…

Dec 23, 2021 6 minute read
Tailor-made treatment fit Lyn like a glove MR/RT

Tailor-made treatment fit Lyn like a glove

For many people, Lyn’s life sounds enviable. Together with her husband of 45 years, she enjoys the year-round gentle climate that Sydney, Australia, offers; perfect…

Dec 6, 2021 2 minute read
World’s first clinical Elekta Harmony linac enables treatment of more patients at Turkish medical center In Clinical Practice

World’s first clinical Elekta Harmony linac enables treatment of more patients at Turkish medical center

Six months after the Elekta Harmony radiation therapy system earned CE mark, the first clinical system found a home at Acibadem Bursa Hospital (Bursa, Turkey),…

Nov 26, 2021 4 minute read
Transition to Monaco completes Elekta environment and allows huge time savings at GenesisCare Radiotherapy

Transition to Monaco completes Elekta environment and allows huge time savings at GenesisCare

In their recent transition to the Elekta treatment planning solution, GenesisCare Australia simplified their dosimetry workflow significantly due to the integration between Monaco® and MOSAIQ®….

Nov 18, 2021 5 minute read
Save time and increase confidence with Elekta Patient QA Solutions Radiotherapy

Save time and increase confidence with Elekta Patient QA Solutions

There are two beam-matched Elekta Infinity™ linacs at the Minneapolis Radiation Oncology (MRO) North Memorial Radiation Therapy Center and pre-treatment QA is performed for around…

Oct 22, 2021 5 minute read
Next-generation treatment plan optimizer supercharges Gamma Knife radiosurgery planning at The Brain Centre Neuroscience

Next-generation treatment plan optimizer supercharges Gamma Knife radiosurgery planning at The Brain Centre

It took a only handful of cases for The Brain Centre (TBC, Hong Kong) neurosurgeon Chung-Ping Yu, MD to appreciate the advantages of Leksell Gamma…

Oct 20, 2021 7 minute read
AI technology to simplify Unity prostate workflow MR/RT

AI technology to simplify Unity prostate workflow

Elekta AI-assisted auto-contouring, currently under development, has been shown to reduce online prostate contouring time to under two minutes, which will shave around 10 minutes…

Oct 1, 2021 4 minute read
New Vantage frame transforms Gamma Knife radiosurgery experience Stereotactic Radiosurgery

New Vantage frame transforms Gamma Knife radiosurgery experience

Patient immobilization for frame-based Gamma Knife® radiosurgery planning and treatment delivery is taking a leap forward with the introduction of Leksell Vantage™ for Gamma Knife®…

Sep 30, 2021 3 minute read
Increasing lung SBRT accuracy with Elekta’s Active Breathing Coordinator Radiotherapy

Increasing lung SBRT accuracy with Elekta’s Active Breathing Coordinator

In a new case study, the team at Sichuan Cancer Hospital Radiotherapy Center describes how they apply the moderate deep inspiration breath-hold (mDIBH) technique using…

Sep 27, 2021 3 minute read
Leaving cervical cancer nowhere to hide Brachytherapy

Leaving cervical cancer nowhere to hide

Suryavathi Kanda, 39, and her family, consisting of her husband and now young adult children, run a small dairy business in Andhra Pradesh, India. It…

Sep 16, 2021 2 minute read
Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute unlocks powerful insights to improve patient care and productivity Oncology Informatics

Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute unlocks powerful insights to improve patient care and productivity

Access to data analytics has the power to improve patient care, productivity and reduce costs. But for many radiation oncology centers, gathering the data and…

Sep 10, 2021 5 minute read
Debbie practices mind over matter to overcome melanoma  Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Debbie practices mind over matter to overcome melanoma 

Deborah (Debbie) Butler, from Caloundra, Australia – near Brisbane – doesn’t get upset over things she can’t change, even when those things happen to be…

Aug 23, 2021 2 minute read
Focus on quality and patient experience are key elements of Gamma Knife program success Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Focus on quality and patient experience are key elements of Gamma Knife program success

The foundation of Kettering Health’s Gamma Knife program is built on four key pillars, according to Anthony Paravati, MD, the center’s director of stereotactic radiation…

Aug 20, 2021 3 minute read
Advanced service technology keeps busy Spanish radiotherapy department up and running Elekta Care

Advanced service technology keeps busy Spanish radiotherapy department up and running

The founding of Hospital Provincial de Castellón dates back to 1394, a year in which clinicians likely had difficulties treating even the simplest maladies, let…

Aug 16, 2021 5 minute read
Edmilson’s cancer was successfully treated with a therapy he’d never heard of before Radiotherapy

Edmilson’s cancer was successfully treated with a therapy he’d never heard of before

You’ll often find Edmilson tending to his garden in the lush surroundings of his São Paulo home. It’s his pride and joy. Indeed, he deserves…

Aug 10, 2021 2 minute read
Australian cervical cancer patients benefit from clinic’s latest Elekta GYN applicator Brachytherapy

Australian cervical cancer patients benefit from clinic’s latest Elekta GYN applicator

Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre (ONJ, Melbourne, Victoria) clinicians began using their new Geneva™ Universal Gynecological Applicator in October 2020 and in a…

Aug 9, 2021 5 minute read
Austrian physicists save time and increase efficiency with Elekta QA solutions Radiotherapy

Austrian physicists save time and increase efficiency with Elekta QA solutions

The Institute for Radiation Oncology at the Klagenfurt am Wörthersee Clinic in Austria is a growing and thriving radiotherapy department. Not only have they updated…

Aug 4, 2021 5 minute read
Optimizing needle insertion with CT guidance during GYN brachytherapy Brachytherapy

Optimizing needle insertion with CT guidance during GYN brachytherapy

Using CT to guide and plan intracavitary/interstitial brachytherapy for patients with cervical cancer is an attractive option for centers with limited 3D imaging options for…

Jun 16, 2021 7 minute read
Beirut hospital to offer more advanced cancer treatment with linac upgrade Citizenship

Beirut hospital to offer more advanced cancer treatment with linac upgrade

Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, has perhaps suffered more than other cities during the Covid-19 pandemic. In August 2020, an explosion in the city’s harbor left over…

Jun 11, 2021 2 minute read
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