Radiation therapy developer Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, and image-guided therapy firm BrainLab of Munich, Germany, have sold a Varian/BrainLab Novalis Tx radiosurgery platform to Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India.
The hospital, which currently delivers radiotherapy using three Varian Clinac linear accelerators and four telecobalt devices, has been carrying out stereotactic radiotherapy on Clinac accelerators since 2000, mainly for brain tumor patients.
The acquisition of the new Novalis Tx platform, which was ordered in March, will enable clinicians at Tata to expand the program by delivering stereotactic radiosurgery to treat both cranial and extracranial tumors.
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