Varian Medical Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide cancer therapy systems worldwide. Its Oncology Systems segment designs, manufactures, sells , and services hardware and software products to treat cancer with radiation, including linear accelerators, treatment simulation and verification products, information management and treatment planning software, brachytherapy products and software, and other accessory products and services. It also offers conventional radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiation therapy, image guided radiation therapy, and stereotactic radiotherapy, as well as brachytherapy techniques. This segment markets its products to cancer treatment clinics, university research and community hospitals, private and governmental institutions, healthcare agencies, doctors' offices, and cancer care clinics. The company's X-ray Products segment designs, manufactures, and markets X-ray imaging components and subsystems, such as X-ray tubes for use in applications, including computed tomography, scanning, radioscopic/fluoroscopic imaging, mammography, and special procedures and industrial applications; and flat panel detectors for digital X-ray image capture. This segment sells its products to imaging system original equipment manufacturers. It also provides Linatron X-ray accelerators for security and inspection purposes; designs, manufactures, and integrates products and systems for delivering proton therapy; and develops technologies in the areas of digital X-ray imaging technology, volumetric and functional imaging, improved X-ray sources, and technology for security and cargo screening applications. Varian Medical Systems has a strategic collaboration with Raysearch Laboratories AB to develop software for integration into company's Eclipse treatment planning system. The company was founded in 1948 as Varian Associates, Inc. and changed its name to Varian Medical Systems, Inc. in 1999. Varian Medical Systems is based in Palo Alto, California. Target: 76.00
$65.32 (08/16/08)
