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Treatment Planning Software
Elekta CMS Software invites customers from Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America to attend our Treatment Planning Software Users Meeting http://www.elekta.com/rtp-users, October 14-16 in Split, Croatia’s second-largest city and one of the Adriatic Sea’s most fascinating ports. An interactive forum, attendees will be presented with information on the first clinical implementations of Monaco with VMAT, as well as learn more about Elekta’s vision for the future of radiation treatment planning. The meeting is open to customers currently utilizing Elekta’s treatment planning solutions, including XiO, Monaco, Focal, Focal 4D, Atlas-based Autosegmentation, ERGO++ and PrecisePLAN.
“We have been developing RTP systems for more than 30 years and are committed to providing clinicians with the flexibility to integrate Elekta’s planning capabilities across a wide range of radiation delivery techniques,” says Roberto Pellegrini, director of treatment planning for Elekta.
There is no fee to attend the meeting, which includes several social and networking events, however travel and lodging expenses are the responsibility of the attendee. To register, visit www.elekta.com/rtp-users.
Split, Croatia
UMC Mannheim
A 63-year-old male with prostate cancer is the first patient in Europe to receive radiotherapy treatment planned with a new version of Monaco® software optimized for Elekta VMAT. Using the arc-based Elekta VMAT delivery method, Monaco planning dictates how the radiation dose should be applied—its distribution and strength on the target. The result is a therapy that not only is very rapid with VMAT, but one that also is fine-tuned to treat cancer and avoid healthy normal tissues.
The patient received his Elekta VMAT treatment at University Medical Center (UMC) Mannheim (Germany) in January. Total VMAT delivery was four minutes, while conventional delivery would have taken 6-8 minutes, says UMC Vice Chairman, Prof. Frank Lohr.
“Monaco planning will bring VMAT into the radiation therapy field on a broad basis,” Dr. Lohr says. “With Elekta VMAT and Monaco, and the full hardware and software packages running on these systems, we will no longer have any resource constraints in delivering the most complex treatments to patients immediately.”
For additional information regarding Monaco VMAT at UMC, click here
The first day of AAPM opened Sunday at 1 PM. Elekta, Impac Software and CMS Software are located in the largest booth at the show, which is near the Hall’s front entrance. [ Click here for AAPM Floorplan ]
AAPM is expecting over 2500 people at the show this year slightly less than last year, although physicistsare still registering. The Elekta booth was very busy during the first day with special interest in CMS Software’s treatment planning system, Monaco with VMAT which was just cleared by the FDA on July 17th. The workstations were packed all day with back-to-back demos.
The theme of this year’s show is, “Beyond rapid there is Elekta VMAT” and it is depicted through engaging graphics of young children in red capes, a subtle nod to VMAT as the hero of conformal therapy procedures with its multiple arc capability and high dose conformance, not to mention that the time and total monitor units needed to deliver these treatments can be reduced drastically from standard IMRT protocols.
There has been a lot of buzz about VMAT throughout the technical sessions, which positions Elekta very well in this space.
Three copies of this year’s AAPM summer school physics book, “Clinical Dosimetry Measurements in Radiotherapy” will be raffled off and shipped to AAPM attendees on August 3rd.
- Elekta Booth at AAPM 2009
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CMS Software, part of the Elekta Group and leader in radiation treatment planning and workflow management solutions, today announced that Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute has purchased Monaco, the next-generation Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) treatment planning system.
Monaco - next Generation IMRT
Featuring biological modeling, constrained optimization, sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms, Monaco represents a new approach to IMRT planning, including a sophisticated set of tools to make the radiotherapy planning process easier, more straightforward and more clinically reliable.
“The OHSU Department of Radiation Medicine is excited to offer its patients new technology that comes with the purchase of Monaco,”
says Wolfram Laub, Ph.D., and Associate-Director of Medical Physics at OHSU.
“The department has acquired multiple new technologies within the past few years and is a state-of-the-art facility. This recent purchase underlines OHSUs commitment to providing patients access to cutting-edge radiation therapy treatment.”
As the clinic continues to adopt advanced treatment planning technologies, they intend to review the soon-to-be-released Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT)* planning functionality in Monaco. With the addition of VMAT to Monaco, clinicians will have additional benefits including:
• Simultaneous optimization of multiple non-coplanar arcs, which allows flexibility when planning with one or more arcs.
• Monte Carlo dose engine allows continuous arc calculation rather than being limited to dosing approximations with discrete gantry positions.
• Biologically based constrained optimization, which enables better target dose conformity and normal tissue sparing.
Developed in collaboration with leading academic healthcare institutions, Elekta’s comprehensive VMAT solution, with 3D volumetric imaging and advanced treatment planning algorithms, allows more precise dose distribution and faster treatment delivery. Future developments include creating more efficacious and efficient approaches for clinicians to deliver patient care.
*Monaco VMAT functionality is a works-in-progress.
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