Follow Elekta

Visit Elekta.com

Elekta | Focus Magazine
Linac-based cranial SRS a mainstay in many departments Radiotherapy

Linac-based cranial SRS a mainstay in many departments

May 19, 2022 4 minute read
Elekta maintains its unrelenting focus on innovation to help cancer patients worldwide Leadership Perspectives

Elekta maintains its unrelenting focus on innovation to help cancer patients worldwide

May 4, 2022 3 minute read
Improving daily treatment with proton arc therapy Radiotherapy

Improving daily treatment with proton arc therapy

Apr 28, 2022 7 minute read

Most Popular

Explore

Elekta Care

Leadership Perspectives

Innovation

Citizenship

Culture

Brachytherapy

MR/RT

Neuroscience

Oncology Informatics

Radiotherapy

Stereotactic Radiosurgery

In Clinical Practice

Insights and Trends

Linac-based cranial SRS a mainstay in many departments Radiotherapy

Linac-based cranial SRS a mainstay in many departments

While Leksell Gamma Knife® stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is the undisputed gold standard for treating cranial indications, the linear accelerator maintains its position as the most…

May 19, 2022 4 minute read
Improving daily treatment with proton arc therapy Radiotherapy

Improving daily treatment with proton arc therapy

Proton arc therapy is an advanced radiation therapy technique that consists of a continuous delivery of a proton beam as the gantry rotates around the…

Apr 28, 2022 7 minute read
Enhanced confidence for prostate SBRT with Clarity Autoscan Radiotherapy

Enhanced confidence for prostate SBRT with Clarity Autoscan

In October 2019, the radiation therapy department at the University Hospital Virgen Macarena (UHVM) in Seville installed Clarity® Autoscan with a view to implement prostate SBRT….

Apr 7, 2022 4 minute read
Radiosurgery as it should be – smooth, painless, effective and close to home Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Radiosurgery as it should be – smooth, painless, effective and close to home

Losing her hearing due to a vestibular schwannoma* would have been devastating for Jane. After all, she plays both percussion and harp in her free…

Mar 23, 2022 2 minute read
Linac replacements at French clinic boost productivity and enable advanced techniques Radiotherapy

Linac replacements at French clinic boost productivity and enable advanced techniques

In 2016, U2R, an international cancer management company, acquired an underperforming cancer clinic in Clermont-Ferrand, France and set it on a path to greater success…

Mar 17, 2022 4 minute read
Third Elekta Unity MR-Linac helps Dutch hospital maintain prolific clinical and research pace MR/RT

Third Elekta Unity MR-Linac helps Dutch hospital maintain prolific clinical and research pace

In an effort to expand its research and clinical bandwidth in MR-guided radiation therapy (MRgRT), University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) recently became the world’s first…

Mar 4, 2022 7 minute read
Pandemic creates parenting challenges, opportunities for families Culture

Pandemic creates parenting challenges, opportunities for families

Elekta parents adapt to unprecedented times Between Elekta employees Rachael Bissell, Mark Samsa and Eddie Reiter are eight children who have been seeing a lot…

Feb 18, 2022 6 minute read
How evidence and trust helped Pepi make the best choices Brachytherapy

How evidence and trust helped Pepi make the best choices

“This is bad, isn’t it,” Pepi recounts telling the clinician when receiving the results of her mammogram. She says she already knew the outcome. “I’d…

Feb 8, 2022 2 minute read
Elekta Unity MR-Linac at home in a small radiotherapy department MR/RT

Elekta Unity MR-Linac at home in a small radiotherapy department

Access to sophisticated radiation therapy technology is often associated with large medical centers, their correspondingly large radiotherapy departments employing dozens of professionals, including radiation oncologists,…

Feb 1, 2022 6 minute read
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
View all articles