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Technology and Treatments

Gamma Knife ICON

Treatments: Frameless and frame-based gamma knife radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT), (Brain Mets, benign conditions, and functional disorders):

• Brain Mets-Single, Multiple & re-peat SRS
• Salvage role for gliomas
• Benign conditions- meningioma, pituitary adenomas, schwannoma, craniopharyngioma, haemangioblastoma, and central neurocytoma

 Elekta Linear Accelerator – Versa HD

Treatments:

• Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT)
• IMRT
• VMAT
• IGRT – Imaging- Cone Beam CT, MV & kV planar imaging
• SBRT
• Electron Therapy
• TBI

Brachytherapy

• Remote afterloader HDR brachytherapy
• Eye Plaque LDR brachytherapy

Raystation

• Improved workflows for dose tracking and adaptive re-planning
• Faster loading of patient cases with a large amount of data
• Localize isocenter function now available in all beam lists
• Improved conformance to target for VMAT segments
• Significantly faster optimization of CyberKnife plans with cone and iris
• Improved dose centering during delivery when using Motion Synchronization for Radixact treatment machines
• Possibility to define several machine parameters per beam quality
• Enhanced leaf and jaw tip modeling for electrons
• Display of gamma curves and dose difference curves during beam modeling
• Point-based optimization
• Nuclear interaction correction (NIC) introduced in the light ion pencil beam dose engine
• Improved LET computation using the trichrome fluence model

Gamma Knife Lightning

• Potential beam-on time reduction by up to 50%
• Simultaneous dose control to multiple targets and organs at risk
• High-quality conformal treatment plans in less than a minute

Oncentra

• Applicator modeling and library planning allow increased efficiency in brachytherapy planning.
• IPSA and HIPO inverse optimization algorithms offer ideal dosimetry even with complex interstitial geometries.