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Looks like a CT scanner because it is a CT scanner, allowing efficient 3D CT imaging to be used for ensuring the accuracy of treatment for every patient, every day. For more on the history of this technology go here.

Delivers helical (continuous 360º) IMRT that uses tens of thousands of narrow beamlets, all targeting the tumor and individually-optimized to contribute to the total tumor dose

Offers by far the most beamlets of any form of IMRT, which translates to the most precise conformal radiotherapy available (go here).

• Diseases treated with TomoTherapy
• Bone Mets
• Breast: here , here and here
• Brain here and the new technique to try to spare the area of brain stem cells (go here , here, here, here), craniospinal here
• Head and neck here, here, here, here, nasopharynx, parotid
• Liver: here
• Lung: here, here
• Prostate: here , here, here and here
• Sarcoma: here and here
• Spinal Cord: here
• Case studies
• Other links. Hopkins, City of Hope, CTC,
• Main company web site