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At the present time, the Radiation Oncology Department has 4 Linacs, 2 conventional simulators, a CT simulator, 12 Eclipse TPS workstation, 4 Oncentra TPS workstations, LANTIS record and verify, 1 HDR Nucletron MicroSelectron, Nucletron Plato TPS, TheraplanPlus TPS, Variseed, Z-Med Ultrasound localization system, Calypso localization system, TLD Dosimetry System, PTW Dosimetry system, multiple detectors, etc. In addition, we have 6 satellites which offer advanced technology such as Cyber-knife and Gamma-knife.
In June 2008, we will move into a state-of-the-art department in the Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, which will have four state-of-the-art Varian linacs with on-board imaging, two 4-D CT simulators, a wide-bore 1.5T MRI unit, a PET-CT simulator and an Acuity simulator with cone-beam CT for interventional procedures.
In late 2009 the Roberts Proton Therapy Center will be added to the department. The cyclotron-based therapy system will have four gantry treatment rooms and a fixed-beam room. The system is capable of delivering single- and double-scattered beams, uniform-scanned beams and pencil-beam scanning. Innovative features will include multileaf collimator for scattered- and uniformed-scanned beams and cone-beam CT on the proton gantries.
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