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Varian's RapidArc Radiation Delivery System Goes Clinical

Posted on July 22, 2008

Varian Medical Systems out of Palo Alto, California has announced that its new RapidArc intensity-modulated stereotactic radiotherapy machine has been used for the first time on a patient with a soft tissue tumor in his thigh. RapidArc makes it possible to quickly deliver an advanced image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment with one 360 degree rotation of the treatment machine around the patient. In this case, however, Scarbrough [Todd Scarbrough, M.D., radiation oncologist and director of the Melbourne Internal Medical Associates, Florida --ed.] and his team des...

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