Linear Accelerator Commissioning Services

MPS specializes in commissioning of linear accelerators.

Our linear accelerator commissioning services are supervised by board certified medical physicists with over fifteen years of clinical and commissioning experience.

All services can be tailored to your specific needs.

Treatment Planning Commissioning

MPS can commission and validate your treatment planning system for clinical use.

We will measure or validate all of the beam data necessary to configure your treatment planning system, including IMRT and small field data.

All services can be tailored to your specific needs.

Special Treatment Planning Modes

MPS can commission the linear accelerator and treatment planning system for use with special treatment planning modes such as IMRT, IGRT, Rapid Arc, and VMAT.

We also provide assistance with the implementation of Quality Assurance (QA) programs for these treatment planning modes that follow the guidelines as recommended by professional associations.

Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil – Lisbon, Portugal

IPO Lisbon has recently implemented their new Varian linear accelerators that bring new technology for the treatment of radiation oncology patients. A total of three new linear accelerators are being used at the Hospital to assist with the treatment of radiation oncology patients at Lisbon, Portugal. The new equipment technology …

Royal Cornwall Hospital – Truro, UK

Royal Cornwall Hospital has started using the new Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator for radiation oncology patient treatments.  This is the first TrueBeam system treating patients in the southwest of the United Kingdom.  MPSi worked with Coastal RadioPhysics to assist the hospital’s physics team with the commissioning of the TrueBeam for …

Raigmore Hospital – Inverness, Scotland (UK)

On April 23, 2012, Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, Scotland (UK), treated its first patients on their new Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator. This is the first TrueBeam system to start treating patients in Scotland and is part of the new radiotherapy equipment upgrade program. MPS assisted the hospital’s medical physics team …

Group Health – Seattle, Washington

MPS worked with Group Health in Seattle, WA to validate the small field algorithm in Eclipse treatment planning system for the delivery of Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) treatments. Small field dosimetry requires the use of special small field chambers to measure the beam data. Several tests were conducted using phantoms to …

Hospital Son Espases – Mallorca, Spain

The island of Mallorca in Spain just inaugurated the new radiation oncology unit at the hospital Son Espases. The new department has installed three new Varian linear accelerators. MPS worked with the physics staff to assist with the commissioning of the new equipment. The group will be implementing IMRT and …

Fresno Cancer Center – Fresno, California

MPS assisted Fresno Cancer Center (Fresno, CA) with the commissioning of their new Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator.  Fresno Cancer Center is a freestanding state-of-the-art Radiation Oncology  facility specializing in IMRT and VMAT treatments.  The new TrueBeam linear accelerator was also commissioned for use with the Eclipse treatment planning system new …

TrueBeam linear accelerators at Nevada Cancer Institute & San Rosore

MPS recently completed the commissioning support for TrueBeam linear accelerators at both the Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, and San Rosore in Pisa, Italy. The Varian TrueBeam linear accelerator offers the new flattening filter free mode treatment modality. In practical sense this means that the same dose could …

Portuguese Institute of Oncology – Porto, Portugal

MPS completed recently the commissioning of seven new Varian linear accelerators at the new state-of-the art facility for the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) in Porto, Portugal. In May 2011, MPS teamed up with Precess Medical Derivatives Inc. to provide expert support on the implementation of the new Varian Novalis …