TABLE 2.
COMMERCIAL NAME (REFERENCE) | MANUFACTURE | MRI FIELD STRENGTH | BORE DIAMETER | BEAM STRENGTH | NO. OF DEVICES OPERATIONAL GLOBALLY |
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Commercially available | |||||
ViewRay (Mutic & Dempsey 201458) | ViewRay Technologies Inc (Oakwood, Ohio) | 0.35 Tesla | 70 cm | 41 | |
• Co-60 | Co-60 source | ||||
• Linac | 6 MV | ||||
Elekta Unity (Raaymakers 2009,61 201762) | Elekta AB (Stockholm, Sweden) | 1.5 Tesla | 70 cm | 7 MV | 26 |
In development | |||||
Australian MRI linac system (Keall 201456) | Australian MRI-linac program | 1 Tesla | 82 cm | 6 MV | NA |
Aurora-RT System (Fallone 201463) | MagnetTx (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) | 0.5 Tesla | 60 cm | 6 MV | NA |
Abbreviations: Co-60, cobalt-60; linac, linear accelerator; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; MV, megavolts; NA, not applicable; RT, radiotherapy.