About Radiation Therapy
Our facility has three radiation vaults, a high-dose rate (HDR) room, and a Siemens large bore computerized tomography (CT) scanner. These features enable us to offer the most current treatment techniques available.
Our Elekta linear accelerators can take images of your treatment area using a CT scan. In some cases, a four-dimensional (4D) CT scan will capture motion during the scan. Using a 4D CT scan, we can track how your organs move and compare that movement with your treatment plan.
The tables also can move in six different directions using the IGuide tracking system. The CT imaging and six-direction table movement allows us to precisely target the tumor while sparing healthy tissue.
Radiation oncologists and neurosurgeons can treat inoperable brain tumors with Stereotactic Radio Surgery using the Elekta system. The linear accelerator vaults also have surface guidance systems. These systems enable us to create an image of your body’s surface that we can then overlay with your planning CT scan. The combined image assists us in making changes to your position in real time.
We also offer:
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT).
This therapy allows us to deliver radiation in fewer days. We deliver strong radiation doses to the tumor and safe radiation doses to the tissues surrounding the tumor.
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT).
Using these techniques, we can control the dose to the tumor. We can deliver radiation to the area that needs treatment and protect the area that doesn’t need treatment.
Brachytherapy radiation.
In this therapy, we safely put a radiation source inside your body to deliver radiation to the tumor without delivering radiation to the healthy tissues around the tumor. We can use brachytherapy radiation alone or with other treatments. We offer high dose rate brachytherapy for accelerated partial breast irradiation. It requires fewer treatment days than conventional external beam irradiation. We also offer permanent seed prostate brachytherapy.
Pediatric radiation oncology.
We are the only program in the state that treats children.