Medical physicists describe hybrid Linac-MRI system
Monday, July 27, 2009 - 17:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Canadian scientists at the University of Alberta's Cross Cancer Institute are developing a new technology that integrates two existing medical devices -- medical linear accelerators, or "linacs," which produce powerful X-rays for treating cancer, and magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs), which are widely used to image tumors in the human body.