Clinical Equipment
Wake Forest University School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology, hosted by the NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, includes 55,000 sq ft of clinical space housing the following radiation and imaging devices:
- 3 Elekta Axesse/Infinity stereotactic linear accelerators with 4, 6, and 10/15 MV x rays, 5 megavoltage electron energies, fine leaf MLC, electronic portal imaging, IMRT and kV CBCT for image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) and stereotactic body radiation treatment (SBRT)
- 1 Elekta ICON Model Gamma Knife™
- 1 Elekta Selectron High Dose Rate Remote Afterloader
- Ring CT for mobile brachytherapy imaging
- 1 GE Healthcare widebore (90 cm) CT simulator with flat, indexed, carbon-fiber, bariatric table and 4D CT
- 1 GE Healthcare Discovery ST-8 PET-CT simulator with large FOV fan, 4D CT, flat, indexed, carbon-fiber table, and 2D/3D/4D PET acquisition
- 1 Siemens Vida 3T MR simulator with robust pulse sequences for stereotactic radiosurgery, neuro-oncology and body oncology imaging, synthetic MR pulse sequences, and array of head and body coils
- 5 GE Advantage workstations with virtual simulation tools and multi-modality image registration
- Distributed MIMS image processing workstations with MatLab and JavaScript interface
- 5+ RayStation, 5+ Pinnacle, 2 Eclipse, and 1 Monaco (Monte Carlo) 3D/IMRT radiation treatment planning systems
- Other technology-specific computing systems
- Robust quantities of NIST-traceable instrumentation for radiation measurements.
All clinical irradiation and imaging devices are available for human research (IRB-approved research protocols) and small and large animal procedures (IACUC-approved research protocols).
Research Equipment
Dedicated research resources include:
- One image-guided, small animal x-ray irradiator, the Precision X-Ray SmART+ unit (Small Animal Radiation Treatment unit)
- One high dose rate, small animal x-ray irradiator, the Precision X-Ray XRAD 320
- One image-guided, clinical grade (human size) linear accelerator, the Varian TrueBeam™ linac with with IGRT, IMRT, RapidArc capabilities
- One future clinical grade (human size) 3T MR imaging unit, the Siemens Skyra
- One future clinical grade (human size) PET/CT imaging unit, the GE Discovery MI, including Comecer shielded glovebox for PET radioligand manufacturing
- Three unique Strontium-90 beta irradiation devices
- Additional resources include: one Clinical Physics Lab (240 sq ft) with biosafety hood; Physics Computing Lab (240 sq ft) with computing systems; MatLab, MIM and other research software; Medical Physics computing cluster; WFU DEAC Cluster 50-node parallel computing cluster; and office space for 9+ graduate and postdoctoral trainees.
- Students can be a part of research at the Cancer Center, the NRC, Biotech Place, and the Clarkson Campus.
*This list is subject to change. We are scheduled to receive a new linear accelerator in the upcoming calendar year.