Key Achievements
- Set up iridium wire implant therapy at PGIMER in 1991
- Developed the model for India Club Radium Needles for HDR oral cancers in 1994
- Developed the equivalence model for pulse dose rate (PDR) and low dose rate (LDR) in a mouse sarcoma model in 1995
- First to start high dose rate (HDR) based interstitial implants for head and neck cancers at RGCIRC in 1996
- First to start physical intensity modulator based IMRT in the country (RGCIRC) in 2002
- Started 3-D conformal radiation with Leibinger micro-multileaf collimator attachment to existing KD-2 Mevatron and introduced the MLC based intensity modulated radiotherapy (RGCIRC) in 2004
- First IGRT in north India in 2007 at Artemis Health Sciences Institute
- Commissioned the first VMAT Linear accelerator in the country (Medanta -The Medicity) -2010
- Commissioned the first Cyberknife VSI, world’s only Robotic Radio Surgery system in the country (Medanta – The Medicity)-2012
- First in the country to start permanent iodine 125 seed implants for prostate cancer (Medanta-The Medicity) – 2013
- Commissioned the first Tomotherapy –H, world’s only integrated IGRT & IMRT equipment at Medanta –The Medicity in 2016, realizing the potential of Medanta Cancer Institute to be one of the three Cancer Centres in Asia and one of the fourteen, worldwide to have all cancer related treatments available under one roof.