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Elekta's Beam Shaping Technology to boost Swedish Clinic cancer treatment efficiency

Friday, 12 April 2013
Swedish Human care company, Elekta said Friday that Uppsala University Hospital is the first clinic in Scandinavia to treat cancer patients using radiotherapy systems equipped with Elekta’s innovative Agility™ 160-leaf multileaf collimator (MLC).

As such, it will enable clinicians there to rapidly and accurately tailor therapeutic radiation beams to tumor targets. The hospital began treating patients with one Agility-equipped Elekta Synergy® system last October and in February 2013 became clinically operational with a second Elekta Synergy with Agility.

“The 5 mm leaves of Agility are particularly valuable in conforming to the shape of small targets that are close to small at-risk organs,” says Kristina Nilsson, M.D., Co-Chief Radiation Oncologist at Uppsala University Hospital in a statement.

In addition to high precision, Agility provides market leading leaf speeds, which has improved the clinic’s delivery times. For example, Agility combined with Elekta’s continuously variable dose rate (CVDR) makes VMAT beam delivery even faster, she adds. For a two arc VMAT plan, this combination has resulted in reduction in delivery time from five minutes to just two minutes, Elekta wrote in a statement.
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by Scancomark.com Team

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