Health Canada approves Elekta’s MR-Linac device license for radiotherapy

Elekta’s Unity magnetic resonance radiation therapy (MR/RT) system has received a medical device license from Health Canada, clearing the technology for commercial sales in Canada. With the achievement of this important milestone, Elekta Unity is now available in Canada and it is expected that this important new treatment option will become available to patients in coming years.

Elekta Unity combines a high-field 1.5T Philips MRI scanner with a best-in-class linear accelerator and breakthrough real-time dose re-planning software that are fully integrated to enable online adaptive radiotherapy and real-time target monitoring. It provides the ability to reshape the dose based on daily changes in shape, size and position of the tumor and surrounding healthy anatomy and then enables accurate dose delivery with real-time visualization of the tumor. For almost five decades.