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Oncology Systems Limited medical physicist Asia Baginska, IBA customer support specialist Isabel Bong and radiotherapy physicist Dr Wendy Hyland. IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) has announced the first clinical implementation of Dolphin Online Ready Patient QA and Monitoring solution in the UK.  The treatment monitoring technology distributed by Oncology Systems Limited to Altnagelvin Area Hospital, […]

Clinical scientist treatment planning Catherine Harris, team leader verification and dosimetry Geoff Budgell, clinical scientist Emma Walker and Oncology Systems Limited sales specialist Raj Baskara. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester, one of the largest cancer treatment centres in Europe, has increased efficiency in its medical physics and engineering department following the implementation of […]

In the back row are trainee physicist Tom Hague, head of radiotherapy Katharine Walker, research physicist Mark Ashburner and radiographers Cecelia Tawse, June Dean and Nicola Robinson.  In front are Elekta applications specialist Ian Morgan, radiographer Graham Cone, senior physicist Rosie Plaistow and radiographers Sophie Glavin and Stuart Archer. At Addenbrooke’s Hospital, more prostate cancer […]

Leeds patient Margaret Johnson was the first to be treated using Elekta’s VMAT and FFF technologies.  With her are radiographers Richard Garratt and Alan Needham and clinical scientist David Paynter. Leeds Cancer Centre has recently delivered its 500th episode of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for inoperable, non-small cell lung cancer since May 2009.  Over this […]

Professor David Thwaites of St James’s Institute of Oncology watches Nucletron UK managing director Mark Hitchman and David Fox of St James’s Institute sign the agreement.   Nucletron has signed a two-year reference site agreement with Professor David Thwaites and Mr David Fox of the St James’s Institute of Oncology, Leeds, part of the Leeds […]