Hyderabad: Amrita Hospital at Faridabad said it has partnered with Indian Institute of Technology- Hyderabad, Eranki Labs Private Limited, and Amrita Centre for Advanced Robotics, to develop a new technology in radiation therapy.
The hospital said that their Head of Department of Radiation Oncology Dr Bhaskar Viswanathan has been selected for a research grant to develop an indigenous robotic ultrasound for tumor motion and radiation hyperthermia for cancer treatment. This technology would be developed in association with Dr Avinash Eranki, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Medical Ultrasound Research Laboratory in IIT-H, among others.
Dr Bhaskar Viswanathan said, “We have been selected for this grant to indigenously develop robot-assisted ultrasound system for image-guided therapies and hyperthermia for cancer patients.