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World's First MRIdian Center Celebrates Two Years of MRI-Guided Radiation Treatments
World's First MRIdian Center Celebrates Two Years of MRI-Guided Radiation Treatments.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nWorld's First MRIdian Center Celebrates Two Years of MRI-Guided Radiation Treatments\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorld's First MRIdian Center Celebrates Two Years of MRI-Guided Radiation Treatments\nSiteman Cancer Center Shares Clinical Expertise to Advance Cancer Care\nPR Newswire\nCLEVELAND, Jan. 11, 2016\n\n\n\nCLEVELAND, Jan. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (OTCQB: VRAY) announced today the two-year anniversary of treating patients with MRI-guided radiation therapy at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. \n\nAn international leader in cancer treatment and research, Siteman Cancer Center has a rich history of adopting and helping to develop new technology with a focus on improving patient care and outcomes. In January 2014, Siteman Cancer Center began treating patients using the world's first and only MRI-guided radiation therapy system – called MRIdian – that enables tumors to be visualized during treatment. \n\nThe technology allows clinicians to see a patient's internal anatomy in real-time and keep the radiation beams on target when the tumor moves during treatment, thus compensating for patient breathing and subtle organ motion, which may move the tumor out of the desired position in the radiation beam.\n\n\"We congratulate the Siteman team as they enter their third year of demonstrating the benefits of treating cancer patients with MRI-guided radiation therapy,\" said Chris A. Raanes, President and Chief Executive Officer of ViewRay. \"We value their thought-leadership and have channeled what we have learned from their clinical experience with the MRIdian system into our future innovation in MRI-guided radiation therapy.\"\n\nThe Siteman team has been active in sharing their expertise to help other centers implement an MRI-guided radiation therapy program. Over the past two years, Washington University physicians have had more than 40 papers and posters accepted at major medical meetings and published eight studies in peer-reviewed medica...