The proposed ring-based compensator enables IMRT without multileaf collimators. The gantry rotates and delivers each beam successively. (Courtesy: Med. Phys. 10.1002 ...

Radiation oncologists are taking better aim at tumors with new software and super-precise radiation machines. Cancer patient Donald Houser lies on a thick plastic slab in Berkeley, Calif. with a ...

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy is an advanced mode of high precision radiation therapy that uses computer controlled X-ray equipment (linear accelerator) and a multileaf collimator to deliver ...

Provided to more than a quarter of cancer patients, today’s targeted radiotherapy has come a long way from its experimental, and Nobel Prize winning, origins. When administering the treatment, shaping ...

A new study now reports that there is an alternative to the conventional CyberKnife treatment delivery system. This new technique uses a multileaf collimator (MLC) and can flexibly sculpt a single ...

IMRT allows doctors to deliver precise radiation doses to tumours while protecting nearby organs and healthy tissue. (Image: Pexels) Radiation therapy has been a backbone of cancer treatment for ...

(PHILADELPHIA) Incontinence and impotence are two major complications feared by men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, since the bladder and the rectum are the two organs adjacent to the ...

We congratulate St. Luke’s Hospital for expanding the availability of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) in the Lehigh Valley (The Morning Call, Sept. 28). However, this exciting technology ...