Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center at Froedtert Hospital begins patient treatments with Elekta Unity MR-linac
Elekta Unity allows treatment to be adapted daily based on tumor status, improving accuracy of radiation delivery to tumor while sparing healthy tissueMILWAUKEE, USA, February 5, 2019 – Elekta (EKTA-B.ST) today announced that the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center at Froedtert Hospital, part of the Froedtert & MCW Cancer Network, treated its first patient using Elekta Unity MR-linac, a magnetic resonance radiation therapy (MR/RT) system. Elekta Unity combines two technologies – a high-field 1.5T Philips MRI scanner and a linear accelerator that delivers