A significant stepping stone in radiotherapy occurred with the announcement by the therapeutic oncology company, RefleXion Medical. RefleXion Medical received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for three types of therapy; stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The groundbreaking new technology within the X1 machine will allow ...
When choosing the medical equipment for your facility, it can be a difficult decision to find the best system that can provide treatments for patients while trying to stay inside a budget. Many radiation oncology centers struggle with the decision to purchase a new system vs. preowned refurbished medical equipment. If given a choice, a ...
More than half of cancer patients that receive a diagnosis are most likely to be treated with a form of radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is a treatment that provides a high dose of radiation using a piece of equipment such as a linear accelerator and is aimed at a given area to eliminate cancer cells. Today’s technology ...
Nuclear physicist, Kosuke Morita at Japan’s Kyushu University is on the verge of creating the next new element for the periodic table. Morita and his team have successfully synthesized a new element to the periodic table, making it number 113. There is now a total of 118 known elements, and the race for number 119 ...
For the first time in decades, the United States will have its first new particle collider. The Department of Energy announced earlier this year that the new location of this machine will be at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. The research will be done with the instrument to study the dynamic makeup of ...
Radiation treatment continues to grow and change in order to improve the health and quality of life to cancer patients all around the world. With radiation therapy, high-energy particles or waves of energy are used to treat cancer by breaking up the DNA of cancer cells in a way that destroys their growth and division. ...
A team of researchers called the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration had announced the success of completing a muon beam. In the past, particles made of protons, electrons, and ions have been accelerated in concentrated beams. This new particle called muons are particles much like electrons but with a larger mass, which gives them ...
A team of researchers called the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration had announced the success of completing a muon beam. In the past, particles made of protons, electrons, and ions have been accelerated in concentrated beams. This new particle called muons are particles much like electrons but with a larger mass, which gives them ...
In the past, many patients had described seeing lights flashing during their radiation treatment even when their eyes were closed but no one was ever able to obtain evidence of this occurrence to prove it. Recently, new conclusions have been found by researchers at Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center that there is enough ...
Before a patient begins treatment with radiotherapy, a team of experts will meet to develop a specific plan for each individual patient. The first step in the planning process may involve the use of a CT simulator, which includes a CT scan of the area of the body that needs radiation treatment. This piece of ...
