Sentence examples for radiotherapy system from inspiring English sources

Professor Carole Longson, director of health technology evaluation at Nice, said: "With the Intrabeam Radiotherapy System only one dose is required.

Purpose: To develop and evaluate a new four-dimensional image-guided radiotherapy system, which enables precise setup, real-time tumor tracking, and pursuit irradiation.

The CyberKnife is a frameless image-guided radiotherapy system.

Tomotherapy is a new radiotherapy system that uses an integrated computed tomography scanner to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy treatment.

Although not specifically adressed in this report, we may expect the use of embolisation coils for marking lung tumours to be of benefit for every radiotherapy system using image guidance to detect markers in order to improve the target localisation.

On the other hand, the average Euclidean distance of tumor errors in the lung screening phantom was 4.84 ± 1.45 mm, which was measured by using an image guided patient positioning (IGPP) system in the radiotherapy system used for this study.

The clinical interest for image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is for example emphasized by the partnership between Elekta (radiotherapy systems manufacturers) and Philips (medical imaging specialists) [[19]].

Target localisation can be further improved by the insertion of small metallic markers into the lung tumour, which are automatically detected by the image guidance of tumour tracking radiotherapy systems (TTRS) [ 8] or internal gating systems [ 6].

A novel compact CT-guided intensity modulated proton radiotherapy (IMPT) system is described.

To evaluate the efficacy of these visualizations, we are building a radiotherapy planning system based on a Cray YMP and the Pixel-Planes 5 raster display engine.

This report describes the dosimetric analyses of a Phase I/II protocol, designed to examine the capabilities of an institutionally developed intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) system with respect to dose escalation.