Alberta-made Linac-MR machine combining MRI and radiation could revolutionize cancer treatments
Karen Bartko - 3 February 2023
A machine designed and built in Edmonton is being hailed as a medical breakthrough, expected to revolutionize the way cancer is fought.
“It’s not often you see in your career, an innovation where you can see a new technology that’s going to be able to change how you treat patients,” Dr. Nawaid Usmani said of the machine.
The technology is capable of delivering radiation while also simultaneously obtaining high-contrast and high-resolution (MRI) — providing the world’s most advanced radiation therapy for treatment of tumours.
It was a process once thought impossible in the science and medical community.