"The AEOI has a new project to build micro
linear accelerators which can be used in hospitals," Salehi said on the sidelines of a forum in Tehran on Tuesday.
RadParts, Inc., a subsidiary of Acceletronics, Inc, has the most extensive independent inventory of spare parts for
linear accelerators in the industry.
"Since we launched the global strategic partnership with Siemens last year, we have been steadily working to develop software interfaces that enable clinics with Siemens
linear accelerators to manage patient care using Varian software," says Kolleen Kennedy, president of Varian's Oncology Systems business.
Acibadem Healthcare Group established its first radiotherapy center in Turkey in 2005, siting two Varian Clinac
linear accelerators in Istanbul Kozyatagi Hospital.- TradeArabia News Service
``The new machine brings the total of
linear accelerators up to nine,in line with our aim of having four such pieces of equipment for every million people we serve.''
Scientists at the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center used fiber-optic cables to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data--the equivalent of two DVD movies--across 6,800 miles in less than a minute.
IMRT treatments are delivered using a sophisticated computer-controlled medical
linear accelerator that is outfitted with a beam-shaping accessory called a multi-leaf collimator.
The cancer center has a $1.5 million
linear accelerator with a multileaf colimator, which allows doctors to target radiation with pinpoint precision, sparing other organs.
In practice, the material to be coated becomes the target for a small
linear accelerator in which the material to be implanted is the material that is passed through the accelerator.
Lawmaker asked when the
linear accelerator would be purchased, speaking at a meeting of the parliamentary committee for social affairs, education, health, and culture on Nov 19.