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Wavelength, Elekta’s customer magazine – out now!

October 31, 2012 | Author Elekta

Elekta Wavelength – latest issue available at http://www.elekta.com/wavelength.

Elekta’s global customer magazine, Wavelength, features inspiring and informational stories from the Elekta family around the world. The latest issue highlights Elekta’s 40 years as a company – focusing on news and advances in radiation therapy, information management and neuroscience from our customer partners worldwide.

Highlights include:

Agility™, Elekta’s groundbreaking multi-leaf collimator, is sweeping the globe.
A quarter century of Gamma Knife® radiosurgery excellence: Dr. L. Dade Lunsford at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) shares his experience and view of future trends.
Using deep brain stimulation to bring a life back to normal; a patient’s story.
Dr. David Cohen reflects on the MEG technology he introduced 40 years ago.
Brachytherapy for gynecological treatments – using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to sharpen images of cervical tumors.
MOSAIQ®, the patient-centered workflow, helps a Canadian clinic become paperless from the first day.
New software developments in planning and scanning.
Physicians and colleagues predict what will happen in radiotherapy over the next four decades.
Three customers tell what makes their clinics unique.

We wish you a good reading!

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