News - 06 May 2026

New System for Improving Radiation Therapy Wins UK’s Most Prestigious Innovation Award

New System for Improving Radiation Therapy Wins UK’s Most Prestigious Innovation Award

Vision RT is now a five-time winner of the prestigious King’s / Queen’s Awards for Enterprise:
The highest UK award for British businesses. 

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6th May 2026:

Vision RT has won a 2026 King’s Award for Enterprise (Innovation) for the invention of MapRTTM, which uses surface guided radiation therapy (SGRT) to improve treatment planning.

MapRT uses two cameras and 3D-imaging to map safe radiation beam angles in radiotherapy. It helps improve the quality of treatment plans, minimises physical pre-treatment checks and potential collisions. It also helps make it easier and faster to implement superior non-coplanar treatment plans1-3, which have been shown to reduce irradiation of healthy organs near the cancer.4-25  

Since its launch last year, MapRT has been ordered by nearly 50 cancer centers for X-Ray treatment planning, and its use for proton therapy was validated in April. MapRT has been shown to improve plans for around 20% of all radiotherapy cancer patients1 and reduce radiation to nearby healthy organs especially for lung, head, neck and breast cancer patients.1-3

Vision RT’s first royal award for innovation was for AlignRT, in 2016: AlignRT is used to monitor radiotherapy patient motion, and ensure treatments are safe in real time. AlignRT is now installed of all radiotherapy treatment systems worldwide. While MapRT is at an earlier stage of adoption, 3 NHS sites already have, or will shortly have, MapRT installed.

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About Vision RT:

Vision RT is the inventor of Surface Guided Radiation Therapy (SGRT) which uses camera systems to track surface data, to offer more guidance across every step of the radiotherapy workflow: simulation, planning, treatment and dose visualisation. We work tirelessly to improve the accuracy, efficiency, safety and comfort of radiation therapy. Vision RT is part of the William Demant Invest (WDI) family, a leading Danish Medtech investor with a long-term investment perspective. The companies in WDI employ more than 21,000 people.

 

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