Elekta has signed an agreement with Siemens Medical Solutions to market and sell high resolution add-on multileaf collimators (MLCs). The agreement concerns add-on MLCs for use with Elekta's range of digital accelerators: SL, SLi, Precise Treatment System and Elekta Synergy Platform. The products will be sold by Elekta throughout the world, under the trade names MRC microMLC and MRC ModuLeaf. Under the agreement, Elekta will be responsible for installation and service of the products that it sells.

The agreement also covers joint R&D development between the two parties for add-on MLCs.

"We are very pleased that despite recent change of ownership, we are able to continue our longstanding relationship with the provider of the highest resolution add-on MLCs in the market today," stated Volker Stieber, Executive Vice President of Technology Development and Operations at Elekta.

"Siemens is pleased to provide Elekta with the advanced Multileaf Collimator (MLC) technologies in our ModuLeaf and micro MLC products," said Ajit Singh, President of Siemens Oncology Care Systems.