New Technology Aids Radiation Therapy

Clinicians and therapists can move and align structure sets with the touch of a finger, assuring the precision required for radiation therapy. They can cycle through hundreds of anatomical planes, bringing them the closest they can come today to a 4-D application for ultrasound image guidance. The real-time, interactive display provides a more complete picture of the internal structures than provided by 2-D and 3-D imaging.

"We can quickly cycle through literally hundreds of ultrasound images when aligning our prostate patients for radiation therapy treatment,” said Dr. Judith H. Figura, chief of radiation oncology at Western Pennsylvania Hospital (Pittsburgh, USA). "By drawing a finger across the computer screen, we can image and align in one step the current position with structure sets generated from a computed tomography (CT) treatment plan. ImageSync allows us to increase throughput with extreme confidence that we're targeting the tumor volume.”

ImageSync is the product of Nomos Corp. (Cranberry Township, PA, USA), a leading supplier of planning and delivery technology for IMRT. The company's Noninvasive Scalpel IMRT allows an escalated radiation dose to be delivered to a tumor while limiting exposure and damage to nearby healthy tissue. ImageSync is incorporated in the company's BAT SXi image-guided technology.





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