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Illinois Masonic Medical Center is located in the heart of Chicago's diverse Lakeview neighborhood, a crossroads of lifestyles, economic classes, ethnic groups and ages. Illinois Masonic's comprehensive cancer center diagnoses and treats adults with all forms of cancer. These include breast, lung, colon, rectal, skin and prostate cancer, leukemia, lymphomas and cancers related to AIDS. The mission of Illinois Masonic Medical Center is to improve the health of its patients and the community it serves.
Treatment Machines:
- Linear Accelerator, Varian 21Ex-Delta with the latest on board imaging (OBI) capabilities, both kV and MV.
- 3D/3D Match (CBCT), allows for precise site verification prior to each treatment.
- Breath gating capabilities.
- Dual photon energy accelerator (6. 18 MV) with multiple electron energies ranging from 6 to 20MeV. –
- Multi Leaf collimation (Varian Millennium 120) capabilities allow for precise beam conformality around the treatment area.
Treatment Planning:
- Brand New GE Lightspeed Scanner with 4D capabilities (4D-CT accommodates for tumor motion).
- Our three phase, dual Focal Spot scanner uses 4-Rows of several hundred detectors, several kV options with a maximum current of 440 mA. The three phase generator design delivers a constant voltage to the x-ray tube, generating great images in a very short amount of time.
- The full 360 degree gantry rotation allows for continues helical scans.
- Latest Eclipse/Varian treatment planning software.
- RapidArc, IMRT, 3D Conformal, Dose painting, SBRT
- Latest Quality Assurance equipments
Treatment Programs:
- Interstitial and intracavitary brachytherapy
- Samarium-153 Injections
- Vaginal Cylinders, Ring & Tandem, Prostate HDR/LDR
- Varisource HDR (Ir-192) unit is used for all HDR treatments.
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