More robotics...this time in the oncology field...BD
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO), held its 49th Annual Meeting in
downtown Los Angeles this week. ASTRO is essentially a giant gathering of cancer-fighting doctors. Thousands of oncologists filled the Los Angeles Convention Center and perused the hundreds of vendor booths. Radioactive-oncology treatment involves a large selection of X-ray and proton-gun-wielding robots. This gallery features a selection of the several dozen medical robots -- including robotic imagers, tables, cutters and lead irises -- that showed off their skills at the expo.
The Zeiss Intrabeam is a localized X-ray treatment device. Instead of sending a beam into a tumor like an image-guided radiation-therapy (IGRT) robot or intensity-modulated radiation-therapy (IMRT) machine, this system emits an adjustable sphere of X-rays at the tip of the probe. The probe is then inserted into the area where a tumor was removed to destroy any stray cancerous cells.
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