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ATLANTA and STOCKHOLM, Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At an exclusive event scheduled March 1, 2013, Elekta will reveal a leap forward in radiation oncology and the care of individuals with cancer worldwide. Founded in 1972, Elekta was the first to bring a completely digital linear accelerator to the market, as well as the first to fully integrate imaging technology in the treatment system. Elekta is a market-leading developer of cancer care and neuroscience solutions, including a...

ATLANTA, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta (NSE: EKTAb) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced today that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, Texas) has signed an agreement to join a research group to advance the development of an innovative image-guided treatment technology for cancer care. The technology merges radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology in a single system. MD Anderson is the second member of...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 38(th) edition of the Arab Health Congress and Exhibition, 28-31 January, at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Elekta (booth #S2E30) will highlight its comprehensive range of advanced cancer care solutions, including Elekta Compact(TM), Elekta Synergy® and Elekta Infinity(TM) for conventional radiation therapy, and Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion(TM) for stereotactic neurosurgery. In...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In part to address the 12,000 new cancer cases annually in Saudi Arabia - many of them diagnosed at an advanced stage - King Abdulaziz University Hospital is the first center nationally to acquire image guided treatment technology from Elekta. The 700-bed hospital launched a new era of advanced radiotherapy with the first clinical treatments on its Elekta Synergy® system in February 2012, offering patients with difficult...

ATLANTA, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a process to completely integrate the patient's electronic medical record (EMR) with treatment planning activities, Elekta has introduced MOSAIQ® Evaluate*, a toolset that unites plan and dose review capabilities in a single software framework, MOSAIQ Oncology Information System (OIS). Uniting MOSAIQ and powerful treatment planning review capabilities streamlines planning activities inside the patient chart, reducing patient wait...

ATLANTA, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Among oncology software products, customers ranked Elekta first for its MOSAIQ® Oncology Information System (OIS) in a survey by KLAS, an independent research firm. The recently released 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services* report showed that MOSAIQ scored 80.1 out of 100 and 87 percent of customers indicated they would buy again. The report, which puts MOSAIQ at the top for 2012, is a summary of performance data collected...

ATLANTA, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta has received 510(k) clearance for its Clarity® 4D Monitoring software, enabling U.S. medical centers to implement this new way of reducing the uncertainty caused by prostate motion during radiation treatment. Physicians will be able to monitor the motion of the prostate and surrounding tissues and organs - in real-time and with sub-millimeter accuracy - during the delivery of therapeutic radiation beams. The ability to continuously...

CURITIBA, Brazil, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The 500(th) Leksell Gamma Knife® system manufactured since 1986 was recently installed at Instituto de Neurologia de Curitiba (INC, Curitiba, Brazil). INC - which acquired Elekta's latest generation Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion(TM) - began clinical treatments on October 1, 2012, delivering radiosurgery to a patient with a skull base meningioma. Installed in 48 countries, over 300 Gamma Knife systems are currently in clinical use,...

LAVAL, Canada, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Two female patients 53 and 86 years old, became the first in Canada to receive radiation therapy on a treatment system equipped with Elekta's revolutionary Agility(TM)* 160 leaf multi-leaf collimator (MLC), which rapidly and accurately shapes the beams used in radiation therapy. Clinicians administered the treatments on November 26 at Centre integre de cancerologie de Laval (CICL), located on the North Shore of Montreal. Elekta recently...

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University's (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute was first to treat a cancer patient using Elekta's Monaco® software to create a Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment plan and then deliver it on a Varian Trilogy® treatment machine. Prior to this first clinical use combining Monaco VMAT and Trilogy, OHSU physicists had produced Monaco test plans using prior...