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Hindsight 20/20: Elekta's Kevin Brown

 
• By Tina Tan

Hindsight 20/20 is a Q&A feature where veterans of the medtech industry share career highlights, specific achievements and hurdles they have faced. In this installment, Kevin Brown, global VP of scientific research at radiation therapy specialist Elekta, discusses the challenges of translating scientific ideas into breakthrough technologies that bring value to clinicians and patients. He also addresses his guiding principles for picking winning ideas and his journey bringing to market the world's first integrated high-field MRI and radiotherapy system.

Hinsight 20/20

When Elekta AB announced the CE marking of the Elekta Unity MR-linac system this June, it marked a momentous milestone in a long journey – spanning over a decade – to create and bring to market the world's first device that combines high-field MRI and radiation therapy capabilities, and solves one of the most pervasive problems in cancer radiotherapy, motion management.

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