Elekta and Royal Philips Electronics announced that Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, will join their growing consortium to validate the clinical potential of MRI-guided radiation therapy. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is the fourth member to sign the research agreement to evaluate the new technology, which merges radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a single system. Current clinical members of the group include the University Medical Center Utrecht, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital.
