Northern Light AR Gould Hospital will soon upgrade its linear accelerator, a piece of equipment used in radiation therapy. The current linear accelerator, a Varian IX C Series, is being replaced with ...

Linear electron accelerators are advanced devices used to speed up electrons to high energy levels for various applications, including medical treatments, industrial processes, and scientific research ...

Abstract: Monte Carlo estimation of the giant-dipole-resonance (GRN) photoneutrons inside the Elekta Precise LINAC head (emitting a 15 MV photon beam) were performed using the MCNP6 (general-purpose ...

Elekta, a company based in Sweden, is one of the world's leaders in developing some of the most cutting-edge cancer treatment technologies — and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center has worked with them ...

Introduction: The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of an automatic workflow for head-and-neck (H&N) radiotherapy using a multi-atlas based auto-contouring software and an ...

Purpose: This study aimed to provide quantitative information for implementing Lattice radiotherapy (LRT) using a medical linear accelerator equipped with the Millennium 120 multi-leaf collimator (MLC ...

Portneuf Cancer Center hosted a ribbon cutting earlier today. This event was to unveil their new Varian True Bean Linear Accelerator. The Linear Accelerator is a new way to deliver radiation therapy ...