A new machine at Windsor Regional Hospital could help deliver 26,000 more cancer treatments a year.  Unveiled Monday, the ...

Researchers warn that radiation from the machines can increase cancer risk. New Medicare rules aim to make these imaging ...

Authorization to purchase, store, use or dispose of an x-ray machine must be obtained from the Radiation Safety Committee or the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO). Certain instrumentation, machines, and ...

The Therac-25 was not a device anyone was happy to see. It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target.

A fourth radiation treatment bunker is now up and running at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre. The new Linear Accelerator — ...

However, scanning electron microscopes are radiation-generating devices and should be at least inventoried. The Indiana State Department of Health requires that the machines be registered with their ...

Most radiation therapy uses machines called linear accelerators. These machines direct high-energy x rays at specific cancer cells in a patient's body, shrinking or removing them. Radiation therapists ...

It uses high intensity radiation to destroy cancerous cells. It can be either given from outside by a machine or injected in the body and targeted to the affected organ. Radiation therapy is most ...

The manual applies to all radioactive materials and radiation generating machines requiring licensing or registration in accordance with Title 17, California Code of Regulations. Accordingly, no one ...

Bokaro, Feb. 16 -- Bokaro has witnessed a significant advancement in its healthcare sector with the installation of the state-of-the-art LINAC TrueBeam radiation machine at Medicant Hospital.

I see Gy∙cm2 and mGy on the monitor of my angiography machine. What do these represent? These are two measured dosimetric quantities that can be used to estimate the radiation risks. Gy∙cm2 is used ...

These government-owned, contractor-operated test sites are confronting skyrocketing demand for physical shots of radiation beyond computer simulations, diverting machine time from the labs ...