Doctors at Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates (MIMA) Cancer Center in Florida are using Varian Medical Systems' RapidArc radiotherapy technology to deliver stereotactic body radiotherapy in the treatment of soft-tissue carcinoma.
The Palo Alto, CA-based company said MIMA is the first facility to use the technology for that application.
RapidArc is designed to deliver image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy with one 360° rotation of the treatment machine around a patient. In this case, however, MIMA designed a treatment that is delivered with a half-rotation around the patient to target a tumor in the leg.
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