SGRT

Cancer patients undergoing treatment at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) are benefiting from a type of  radiotherapy that reduces treatment time while increasing accuracy and patient comfort. Surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT) is being offered to patients receiving radiotherapy treatment, and uses cameras to create […]

Vision RT is delighted to announce it has won a 2024 King’s Award for Enterprise. The King’s Award is the most prestigious prize for UK businesses, recognising and celebrating business excellence across the country. His Majesty, King Charles III personally approves the awards, and the Department for Business and Trade publicly announced the winners on […]

OSL is partnering with laser specialist LAP to distribute the Luna 3D surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT) system in the UK and Ireland. Luna 3D exploits high resolution stereoscopic cameras to position and monitor the patient’s external surface throughout radiation treatment. Sales manager Lucy Griffiths said: “We have a team of expert therapeutic radiographers, dosimetrists and medical […]

The radiotherapy team at Royal Derby Hospital has won a national award for improving outcomes for more than a thousand cancer patients, through the use of surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT). The tattoo-free radiotherapy treatment won the Most Effective Contribution to Improving Cancer Outcomes award at the national Health Service Journal Partnership Awards on March 23, with […]

Founded in 2001, Vision RT says it invented surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) just over 20 years ago and remains the market leader in this field. More than 2,000 systems are in clinical use worldwide. It has been a long journey for the company, which installed its first clinical system at Massachusetts General Hospital back in […]

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is to install 11 surface-guided radiotherapy (SGRT) systems from Vision RT. The systems will be installed across all four Christie treatment centres and integrated into existing Varian and Elekta linacs as well as Philips CT scanners. This investment will initially form part of the hospital’s drive to expand […]