Canada developed the latest linear accelerator and magnetic resonance imaging combined technology

Canada scientists are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical equipment-medical linear accelerator: produce powerful x-ray treatment of cancer; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system: widely used in human tumor Imaging.

The linear accelerator and magnetic resonance system integration is designed to help physicians in the treatment of specific types of cancer, so that doctors in radiotherapy process accurately monitoring cancer in people's lungs and other soft tissues such as the liver or the movement of the prostate.

Although this new technology is currently not implemented in the hospital, the University of Alberta from Canada Cross Cancer Institute scientists have demonstrated the feasibility of the technology in the future.

Another group consisting of Stanford University is conducting research related to determine how to use the new technology.

The two groups in 2009 July 26 to 30, the 51st United States United States Conference on medical physics.

In recent years, image-guided radiation therapy has become a kind of tracing the tumor.

With image-guided radiation therapy, doctors usually treat before implantation tagging tumors or use CT Imaging to determine the location of the tumor, by adjusting the patient's position would shoot high radiation doses to the tumor.

Fallone doctor and his colleagues have succeeded in taking difficult established the first accelerator-magnetic resonance equipment group and.

Fallone Dr. 5 years or so the system will be developed.

In related research, Stanford University, Dr. Sawant and his colleagues poly gold tabarz, Paul has developed a how to combine magnetic resonance and linear accelerator systems, real-time image guidance related technologies.

Typical magnetic resonance imaging time each frame from a few seconds to several minutes. Sawant, noted that their goal is to speed up to 10 times. They are developing specific to Imaging, making the entire tumor accurate real-time Imaging per second to reach the 3 times.

The implementation of this technology is the key to may reduce cancer magnetic field magnetic resonance imaging.

Powerful magnetic resonance imaging of the hospital with a large magnetic field strength, providing the best quality of image. When someone is diagnosed with cancer, the better quality imaging help doctors on tumor imaging, doctors want in a timely manner about the image problem as precisely as possible, so that accurate classification of tumors. This kind of strong magnet linear accelerators are more expensive, technically challenging.

In this meeting, the Sawant, Ph.d., and his colleagues describe their research results that showed rapid Imaging MRI mixed linear accelerator system tumor real-time tracking.