Early warning system A study led by Eric Mellon and Kaylie Cullison at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is the first to quantify tumour changes in glioblastoma patients receiving MRI-guided ...

Mercy Health – Lorain continues to grow its radiation oncology services, with the addition of a new, upgraded linear accelerator, also known as a LINAC. Titan Unity Shop opens at Lorain High School ...

After conversion of a standard clinical linac, it can deliver a FLASH beam with a dose rate 3000 times higher than used for conventional radiation treatment. (Courtesy: Mahbubur Rahman) Researchers ...

BOSTON — On a recent Wednesday morning at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a team of two radiation therapists, a radiation oncologist, and a physicist sat glued to a screen filled with black-and-white ...

Canadian scientists are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or "linacs," which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and ...

Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC. At a ceremony today, CERN European research center inaugurated its newest accelerator. Linac 4 will ...

Advances in radiotherapy are rapidly transforming how prostate cancer is treated, offering patients more precise, less invasive options that can fit more easily around everyday life ...

The inner ring is the MRI bore which performs the imaging of the patient. The outer ring is the gantry on which the linear accelerator (linac) that produces the radiation for treatment is mounted. The ...

The value of 18F-fluordesoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in the detection of the primary lesion and for staging in brain metastasis (BM) patients with cancer of unknown primary ...