Important Considerations When Valuing Your Medical Equipment Systems For Financial Purposes.
Determining the Fair Market Value (FMV) of your medical equipment systems is not as simple as slapping on a price tag. There are many costs (or values) associated with converting a linear accelerator from simply a machine with parts to…
Room Dimensions Requirements to Install a Linear Accelerator
What are the vault room dimension requirements to install a linear accelerator? This is a question we often field at ROS. It’s also not that easy to find the answer for various manufacturers in one place. We recommend referring to…
After 40 Years Treating Thousands of Cancer Patients, it’s Time for this Varian 6/100 Linear Accelerator to Retire
How long do medical linear accelerators really last? At Radiology Oncology Systems, we’ve spent decades tracking medical linear accelerators around the world—and thanks to that experience, we have come to recognize that these devices have a much longer useful life…
MagnetTx’s New Aurora-RT Linear Accelerator
For this installment of our interview series with leaders in the field of radiation oncology, we spoke with Dr. Gino Fallone. The inventor of MagnetTx’s new Aurora-RT linear accelerator, he serves as Professor and Director of the Division of Medical…
New Radiotherapy Software To Be Showcased at ASTRO
Radiation therapy technology is advancing as quickly as ever—but where previous decades have seen improvements in precision, localization, and patient outcomes, experts are now turning their attention to other areas for improvement. For 20 years, Dr. Marco Carlone has been…
Should you use an outside, 3rd party physics group to commission your Linac?
Advancements in linear accelerator technology and software-controlled radiation treatment have had a tremendous positive impact on patient outcomes and on the practice of radiation oncology. However, these advancements have also made the commissioning process for linear accelerators more complex. In…