radiotherapy

At this year’s ESTRO Congress in Vienna, Austria, Micropos Medical hosted a seminar on augmented stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), a concept encompassing technologies for motion tracking and enhanced methods for accuracy in radiotherapy for prostate cancer, with a focus on treatment outcomes and quality of life. The seminar brought together experts in the field […]

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital in the world to treat a patient using an advanced radiotherapy planning system from RaySearch Laboratories. The technology introduces online adaptive radiotherapy (oART), which enables clinicians to make same-day adjustments to a treatment plan, while the patient is on the treatment bed. Treatment is […]

Leeds Cancer Centre at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has taken a step forward in radiotherapy planning with the upgrade of a Philips Ingenia Evolution 1.5T MRI to include SmartSpeed technology. In July, it became one of the first radiotherapy centres in the world, alongside others in Japan and the Netherlands, to use SmartSpeed clinically. […]

Siemens Healthineers showcased its latest MRI system at this year’s European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology Congress in Vienna, Austria. The 1.5T Magnetom Flow RT Pro Edition is helium-independent and does not require a quench pipe so it can be sited close to a linac to help deliver adaptive radiation therapy. Through AI-powered image reconstruction […]

Ergéa UK, a vendor-neutral provider of managed equipment services (MES), has published a white paper exploring how modern MES solutions can help expand patient access to radiotherapy across the UK. Radiotherapy MES: A Planned Long-Term Solution to the UK Radiotherapy Crisis outlines how a radiotherapy MES provides a structured, funded and strategic approach to addressing […]

The doors have officially opened to a new radiotherapy centre in Milton Keynes, sparing hundreds of cancer patients from travelling to Oxford for treatment. Radiotherapy patients Jen McAuliffe and Martin Flynn cut the ribbon, as two of the more than 200 patients who have been treated so far. OUH Radiotherapy @ Milton Keynes is run […]

Oncology Imaging Systems (OIS) has become the official distributor of Radformation’s automation tools across the UK. This collaboration marks an advancement in streamlining radiation oncology workflows. Radformation’s suite of AI-powered solutions is designed to eliminate time-consuming manual tasks in radiotherapy, allowing clinicians to focus on patient care. AutoContour is an autocontouring solution already used by […]

Radiotherapy centres use clinical systems including oncology information and treatment planning systems to plan and deliver treatment. However, according to Quadris, the infrastructure supporting these tools is often under pressure, especially with ageing hardware, rising support costs and the growing need for 24/7 availability. Quadris Cloud is said to be helping organisations like The Christie, […]