September 25, 2007 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for a pedicle screw system for the treatment of severe spondylolisthesis, a multileaf collimator for precise ...

Treatment plan dose distributions for a locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma case with three targets, using MLCs with maximum leaf speeds of 1.0 cm/s (a, b) and 3.5 cm/s (c, d). The 3.5 cm/s MLC ...

Modulated Electron Radiotherapy (MERT) techniques represent an evolution in radiotherapy that harnesses the unique properties of electron beams to achieve highly conformal dose distributions. By ...

The shape of things to come: LAP and OTH Amberg-Weiden are developing a next-generation drive and control unit that promises an order-of-magnitude improvement in the speed and precision of the MLC ...

A multileaf collimator (MLC) for radiosurgery from Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, Calif., contains up to 120 tungsten slats controlled by miniature motors. The slats block the path of X-rays, ...