Accuray is a radiation therapy company that develops, manufactures, and sells radiation therapy systems to deliver treatments including
stereotactic radiosurgery
Stereotactic surgery is a minimally invasive form of surgery, surgical intervention that makes use of a three-dimensional coordinates, coordinate system to locate small targets inside the body and to perform on them some action such as ablation, ...
(SRS) and
stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). It is the developer of innovative technologies, the
CyberKnife and
TomoTherapy platforms, including the Radixact System, the latest generation TomoTherapy platform. The company is headquartered in
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States.
Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, ...
, CA,
the United States
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. The platforms are installed in leading healthcare centres in approximately 50 countries globally.
History
Accuray was founded in 1990 by
John R. Adler
John R. Adler (born 1954) is an American neurosurgeon and medical device entrepreneur.
Dr. John R. Adler was born in Yonkers, New York in 1954. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and Harvard Medical School in 1980. From 1980 to 1987 he co ...
, a Stanford neurosurgeon, and commenced commercial operations in 1992.
In February 2007, Accuray was registered under the ticker
NASDAQ
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:ARAY. In 2011, Accuray completed its $277 million acquisition of
TomoTherapy Inc., creator of advanced radiation therapy solutions for cancer care.
In 2012, the company acquired Morphormics for a total $5.7 million. Morphormics was founded by
University of North Carolina
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at
Chapel Hill faculty and specialized in developing imaging software.
In 2015, Accuray signed an agreement with
RaySearch Laboratories AB to integrate treatment planning support for TomoTherapy, Radixact and CyberKnife.
In July 2019, Accuray joint venture with CNNC Accuray in
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
received the license for operating in China.
In August 2023, Accuray changed its head quarters from Sunnyvale, California USA to Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Partners
*
BRAINLAB
C-RAD*
GE HealthCare
LIMBUS AI*
RAYSEARCH
* SCANDIDOS
References
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Medical technology companies of the United States
Medical device manufacturers