Elekta AB, a Swedish firm, is reporting that its new radiation therapy system has been successfully implemented by docs on the first patient in General Hospital Vienna: VMAT technology provides a simultaneous control of the linear accelerator gantry position and speed, the leaves and angle of the multileaf collimator and dose rate. This flexibility enables highly conformal cancer treatments, as well as optimal sparing of the healthy tissue around the target. In addition, VMAT significantly...