Elekta

Elekta is an international company in the medical industry, whose products are mainly in the field of radiotherapy. The company's headquarters is located in Stockholm. The Company's shares are traded on the Nordic Exchange, the Stockholm Stock Exchange, under the ticker symbol EKTAb since 1994. The company generated sales of SEK 4,525 million, corresponding to about 486 million euros in April 30 fiscal year ending 2006/2007. To date April 30, 2007 2031 people were employed worldwide. The company maintains offices outside Sweden, among others, in Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States and in Germany, in total there are more than twenty subsidiaries.

History

The company was founded in 1972 by the Swedish neurosurgeon Lars Leksell. Leksell was a professor at the Karolinska Institute and is considered the inventor of the radiation with the gamma knife. Together with the Swedish physicist Börje Larsson he has thus established the beginning of the field of radiosurgery. So far, about half a million patients of head and neck cancer have been treated with the Gamma Knife.

In 1997, Elekta acquired the radiotherapy part of Philips Medical Systems and has since more companies, such as Finnish MEG manufacturer Neuromag taken over.

In 2005, the company Elekta medical intelligence from Schwabmunchen. In spring 2008, Elekta has signed a Letter of Intent by the takeover bid for the U.S. medical software company CMS (Computerized Medical Systems ) was expressed. As of March 1, 2008, due diligence has been completed and the developers of radiotherapy treatment planning software was acquired.

2011, with effect on the 15th September 2011, Nucletron BV (Netherlands), a manufacturer of equipment and planning software for brachytherapy taken over for the price of € 365 million.

Products

• Leksell Gamma Knife
• Linear accelerator
• Assistive devices for immobilization of the patient
• Software for treatment planning
• Magnetoencephalographs