BSD Medical to Collaborate with GE Healthcare on MRI-Monitored Cancer Treatment System

BSD Medical Corp. (Salt Lake City, UT, USA) has agreed to collaborate with GE Medical Systems in the integration of BSD Medical's cancer treatment system with a GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, UK) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system.

The new system, to be installed at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA), will provide MRI monitoring of cancer treatments in progress as delivered by a BSD Medical system. This will be the first collaborative engineering effort between GE and BSD Medical. BSD Medical has also worked with Siemens Medical Systems (Erlangen, Germany) in earlier integrations for MRI monitoring of cancer treatments with BSD Medical's systems.

The BSD-2000/3D/MR is a hybrid integration of a BSD-2000/3D (three-dimensional) cancer treatment system with an MRI used to visually monitor deep thermal therapy cancer treatments in progress with thermal imaging through MR tomography. The images are in color, and temperature within the images is differentiated visually by the use of color-coding. MR tomography is, therefore, a suitable application for monitoring cancer treatments with BSD Medica's systems because these treatments involve delivery of precision-focused heat through radiofrequency (RF)/microwave energy.

BSD Medical is a leading developer of systems used to deliver precision-focused microwave/RF energy to disease sites in the body, including cancer. Its treatments are used to destroy cancer directly and increase the effectiveness of companion radiation treatments for certain tumors.

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