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The Medizinische Versorgungszentrum Prof. Dr. Uhlenbrock und Partner (Prof. Dr. Uhlenbrock and Partner Medical Center) is a radiology, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine network with 14 clinical locations, six of which  offer radiation therapy services. Five of these clinical locations are currently being upgraded with state-of-the-art Elekta linear accelerators to provide the best possible cancer …

German Radiation Therapy Network starts clinical use of advanced QA system Read More »

We are very pleased to announce that Elekta recently acquired a minority stake in iRT Systems GmbH to improve its quality assurance offering to clinics and hospitals around the world. IQM is the first independent verification system available on the market that verifies the treatment accuracy in real-time during the treatment fraction. IQM is completely integrated into the …

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The Medical Physics team lead by Andrew Veres and Luis Fong de los Santos at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota was one of the leading international radiation therapy centers that cooperated with us as a research partner. The research version of IQM was installed at the Mayo Clinic in September, 2015. Over the past 30 …

Mayo Clinic initiates the clinical implementation of advanced QA technology Read More »

The Zentrum für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie in Bremen and Westerstede, Germany operates a total of 5 linear accelerators at two clinical locations. The IQM System was installed at two Elekta linear accelerators at their clinic in Bremen. The IQM System installation was completed over a single weekend and avoided any impact on the clinical availability …

Private clinic in Bremen starts clinical implementation of advanced QA system Read More »

Kanazawa University Hospital is an important hospital in Japan serving the Hokuriku area, including the Ishikawa prefecture with the aim to improve the level of radiation therapy for area patients. Kanazawa University Hospital closely cooperates with other regional medical centers to offer high quality healthcare for the community. The Radiation Therapy department at Kanazawa University Hospital recently completed …

A new level of verification accuracy and patient safety at Kanazawa University Hospital Read More »

China’s National Cancer Center, in northern China, and Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, in southern China, are the two leading cancer centers in China. Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center currently operates 13 linear accelerators. Investing in IQM allows this busy department to standardize their Machine QA protocols for all their linear accelerators, increase the efficiency of their …

Leading Chinese cancer institute invests in a new level of patient safety Read More »

This spring, clinical physicists at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto teamed up to develop and validate an efficient linear accelerator quality assurance protocol using the Integral Quality Monitor (IQM) System. The team presented their protocol as a poster at the Annual …

Machine QA with IQM: A multi-center study Read More »