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Design a radiotherapy machine from scratch for hospitals with patchy electricity, heat and few engineers, and publish the design so several companies can build it cheaply.
Commercial linear accelerators are built for well-staffed Western hospitals; in sub-Saharan Africa they sit idle for long stretches because of power failures, heat, and the cost of a service call. A consortium (the CERN/STFC/ICEC 'Project STELLA' work is a precedent) would specify a ruggedised, modular, remotely diagnosable machine with battery-buffered power, sealed electronics, swappable modules that a local technician can replace, and an open interface specification. The design and test data would be published so multiple manufacturers can bid; the buyer pays for uptime, not for the box.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers).
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
Shares Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
Shares Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.