The MR Linac machine combines two technologies – an MRI scanner and a linear accelerator – to precisely locate tumours, tailor the shape of X-ray beams in real time, and accurately deliver doses of ...

With MR-guided radiotherapy systems such as the Elekta Unity now available for clinical use, is there a future for adaptive radiotherapy without an MR-linac? (Courtesy: Elekta) The clinical ...

The Elekta Unity is the first high-field MR-guided radiotherapy system. The device integrates a diagnostic quality 1.5 T MR scanner with a state-of-the-art linear accelerator, and in the second half ...

ATLANTA, July 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) today announced that its Elekta Unity magnetic resonance radiation therapy (MR/RT) system has achieved regulatory certification from the ...

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 ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) announces that its Elekta Unity magnetic resonance radiation therapy (MR/RT) system has been awarded the Institute of Physics (IOP) Business ...

Physicians at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper are now treating patients with a groundbreaking new image-guided radiation treatment that allows oncologists to track and monitor the movement of ...

Elekta AB received U.S. FDA clearance for what it called a “groundbreaking upgrade” of its MR-Linac platform which can continuously calculate the movement of a tumor anywhere in the body. The company ...

Is it true progression or pseudoprogression in tumor growth? That's the critical question for radiation and medical oncologists treating patients with glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form ...

The inner ring is the MRI bore which performs the imaging of the patient. The outer ring is the gantry on which the linear accelerator (linac) that produces the radiation for treatment is mounted. The ...