Accuray scores Tampa install

Accuray has placed its CyberKnife image-guided technology for radiosurgery with Tampa Bay Radiosurgical Associates of Tampa Bay, Fla.

The device will be utilized in the CyberKnife Center of Tampa Bay, which is scheduled to break ground in January 2008 and be operational next summer. The facility will operate as an ‘open’ treatment center and will be used by physicians from various institutions and practices, to provide whole-body radiosurgery treatment to the broadest number of patients.

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