Radiation Medicine Specialists of NEPA is proud to offer Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) technology to oncology patients.

     IMRT is radiation therapy with a very advanced delivery system. The radiation beam that normally comes from an accelerator is a uniform dose in a flat field. With IMRT, we are able to modulate the intensity of that beam so different areas of the treatment field get varied amounts of radiation and ultimately optimize the dose distribution.
     For patients with cancers of the prostate, head and neck, and those that are near critical normal tissues and organs, IMRT allows patients to be treated with higher doses of radiation to the cancer and lower doses to normal tissues. This technology provides us with the means to destroy more cancer cells, while decreasing the chances of injury to normal body tissues.
     IMRT shapes the treatment field by modulating the radiation intensity along the path of the beam. It is an extremely customized distribution of the radiation dose. IMRT allows treatment of a tumor adjacent to a critical structure, such as the spinal cord, while still protecting the normal tissue in a way that standard technology does not always permit.

If you would like more information on Intensity Modulated
Radiation Therapy, please phone RMS at 570-714-8686.