Facilities

• Six Varian TrueBeam linear accelerators with 6, 10, 10FFF, and 18 MV X-ray beams and electron beams from 4 to 20 MeV
• One accelerator is dedicated to stereotactic radiosurgery with high resolution multi-leaf collimators and optical surface monitoring patient positional control
• All accelerators are equipped with MV and kV imaging systems
• Varian High Dose Rate brachytherapy unit (¹⁹²Ir)
• Superficial (100 kVp) unit

• Two GE Multislice CT Simulators
• One GE PET/CT Scanner
• 3D Ultrasound

• A Varian Eclipse treatment planning and Aria information system provides an integrated, networked environment that is linked to the other cancer centres in the BC Cancer Agency
• Stand-alone treatment planning systems are available for research purposes
• Cluster of many networked computers running Linux that is devoted to Monte-Carlo radiation transport calculations
• In-house 3D Brachytherapy dose calculation software

There is a full range of the usual medical physics equipment available at BC Cancer - Victoria, including anatomical and water phantoms, film scanners, and an automatic TLD reader. The physics staff consists of 9 medical physicists, with support from an experienced team of physics assistants, and electronics and mechanical workshop staff.

• 3 kW COMET MXR-160/22 x-ray tube
• X-ray beam shutter capable of sub-second irradiations
• Detectors:
  • Four Amptek silicon drift detectors
  • Four Amptek cadmium telluride detectors
  • One Varex flat-panel amorphous silicon detector
  • One Redlen cadmium zinc telluride high-flux photon counting detector
• Computational equipment:
  • Two 64-core computer clusters
  • Compute Canada WestGrid cluster access