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Multileaf Collimator Upgrade Helps in More Efficient Radiotherapy

By MedImaging International staff writers
Posted on 26 Mar 2010
New multileaf collimator technology combines a fast leaf movement of up to 4 cm per second with the highest possible resolution and the lowest leakage and penumbra. These features make it possible to treat patients with high precision radiotherapy, sparing the surrounding healthy tissue regardless of the tumor shape, and can provide a more efficient therapy session by shortening the time of fractions due to fast leaf movements.

Siemens Healthcare (Erlangen, Germany) reported that Christiana Care Health Systems Helen F. Graham Cancer Center (Wilmington, DE, USA), has become the first facility in the United States to upgrade their Oncor linear accelerator with the new 160 MLC multileaf collimator. Charleston Radiation Therapy in West Virginia and Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa has also recently completed the upgrade.

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