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Elekta’s Advanced Versa HD System to Begin Treating Cancer Patients at New Swiss Radiotherapy Clinic

Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Cancer patients referred to Hôpital Riviera’s (Vevey, Switzerland) new radiotherapy clinic will soon benefit from the center’s acquisition of Elekta’s advanced new linear accelerator, Versa HD™.
In a press releases, Elekta writes that the system, currently being installed, will be the centerpiece of Hôpital Riviera’s modern radiotherapy department, which is scheduled to begin patient treatments in June.

Hôpital Riviera will maintain its collaborative clinical operations with Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV, Lausanne).
Versa HD, unveiled by Elekta on March 1, is designed to be the most sophisticated, high-versatility treatment system, giving clinicians the flexibility to deliver conventional therapies to treat a wide range of small and large tumors throughout the body, while also enabling treatment of highly complex cancers that require extreme targeting precision. Treatment of the most challenging cases is facilitated by high-definition beam shaping, in addition to a groundbreaking high dose rate delivery mode.
“High-definition, high-speed beam shaping combined with high dose rate delivery makes Versa HD the ideal SBRT machine,” says Oscar Matzinger, M.D., radiation oncologist at Hôpital Riviera and CHUV. “Still, Versa HD will be our mainstay for basic and palliative treatments and support our future expansion of radiotherapy capabilities.”
News source: Elekta

Hôpital Riviera orders linear accelerator with versatility to treat wide range of cases – from basic to complex

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