Elekta Limited - UK
Linac House
Fleming Way
Crawley
RH10 9RR

Contact: Liz Harris
Email: liz.harris@elekta.com
Web: www.elekta.com

Elekta is an international medical-technology Group which provides advanced clinical solutions for high precision radiotherapy of cancer and for non- invasive diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders.

Elekta's clinical solutions, installed at over 2000 hospitals worldwide, employ non- or minimally invasive techniques and are therefore clinically effective, cost-efficient and gentle on the patient.

Elekta Precise(tm) Solutions offer an open-systems-architecture to ensure maximum connectivity and efficiency whilst still leaving the choice to select or utilise system components from alternative manufacturers. This allows you to make your own decisions about what is best for your department. Elekta combines it's own innovations with those from other industry leaders to offer you solutions tailored to your entire radiotherapy process. Because we know that no one company has an exclusive on innovation, we have partnered with market leaders in order to provide the best in class solutions.

Elekta's product portfolio includes Leksell Gamma Knife®, the world-leading gold standard for non-invasive radiosurgery and Elekta Neuromag(tm) - a magnetoencephalograph, which is the most sophisticated diagnostic system for the registration and localization of nerve cell activity in the brain.

Elekta Synergy(tm) was the first digitally controlled linear accelerator to be able to acquire a 3-D volume image at the time of treatment with the patient in the treatment position. This fully integrated imaging solution addresses the two most significant problems with advanced radiation therapy techniques; the motion and deformation of internal organs and uncertainties in patient set-up.

The Elekta approach is not just to develop pieces of innovative hardware, but to also work with our clinical partners to identify real needs and develop complete solutions which can be easily integrated into the clinic. This includes software and interfaces which support workflows and the back-up of service, upgradability and educational programmes.

Here in the UK, the Christie Hospital Manchester and the Royal Marsden Hospital Sutton are key members of the Elekta International Consortium on Intensity Modulation, formed in 1995. This clinical consortium is continuing to develop a wide range of real world, practical applications for IMRT. In addition The Christie Hospital, Manchester is one of five global centres of excellence helping to define the clinical implementation of IGRT solutions made possible by Elekta Synergy(tm).

For a full description of the Elekta product portfolio visit our website a www.elekta.com