Treatment Planning

Having a treatment plan is an important part of radiation therapy. This channel page includes news and new technology innovations for treatment plans.

Photo Gallery of Technologies at ASTRO 2021
This is an image gallery of technologies on display on the expo floor at the 2021 American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting.
Registration Now Open for RSNA21
July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) …
Varian's Proton Therapy Treatment Planning Software Clears FDA
September 15, 2020 — Varian announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Eclipse v16.1 treatment planning software for proton therapy.
Artificial Intelligence Greatly Speeds Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
The traditional treatment planning process takes days to create an optimized radiation therapy delivery plan, but new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are helping speed this process. In some cases autonomous AI-generated plans can be generated in a couple minutes.
VIDEO: Artificial Intelligence Driven Adaptive Radiotherapy System Begins Treating Patients
David Sjostrom, Ph.D., deputy chief physicist, Herlev Hospital, Department of Oncology, Division of Radiotherapy, Herlev, Denmark, shares the first clinical…

RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) for all stages of cancer

News | Radiation Therapy

RefleXion Announces 14 Medical Physics Investigations at 2022 AAPM Annual Meeting

July 14, 2022 — RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy ...

July 14, 2022

News | Treatment Planning

Harris Health System Selects RayStation

July 8, 2022 — RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announces that Harris Health System in Texas, USA, has placed an order ...

July 08, 2022

Accuray Precision Treatment Planning System For CyberKnife

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Treatment Planning Systems Market Size, Share and Trends Analysis Report

The global treatment planning systems and advanced image processing market size was valued at USD 1.7 billion in 2021 ...

July 07, 2022

Partnership will enable Accuray to use Limbus’ technology to streamline the treatment planning process and increase operational efficiency

News | Radiation Therapy

Accuray and Limbus AI Inc. Partner to Leverage Limbus’ Innovative AI-driven Technology

June 17, 2022 — Accuray Incorporated and Limbus AI Inc. announced they are partnering to augment Accuray adaptive ...

June 17, 2022

Next-generation Gamma Knife will enable more personalized radiosurgery with sub-millimeter accuracy and treatment planning in less than 60 seconds

News | Treatment Planning

Elekta Launches New Radiosurgery System: Elekta Esprit

May 11, 2022 — Elekta has evolved radiosurgery to an unprecedented level with the launch of Elekta Esprit. This latest ...

May 11, 2022

GE Healthcare is proud to announce that it has entered into an agreement to collaborate with RaySearch Laboratories AB, a leading radiation oncology software provider, to develop a new radiation therapy simulation and treatment planning workflow solution, designed to simplify how radiation will be targeted to shrink a tumor.

News | Treatment Planning

GE Healthcare Collaborates with RaySearch to Improve Radiation Oncology Treatment Planning

May 10, 2022 — GE Healthcare is proud to announce that it has entered into an agreement to collaborate with RaySearch ...

May 10, 2022

RaySearch Laboratories AB announces that Mevion China has placed an order for RayStation which Mevion China has sold together with Mevion’s HYPERSCAN proton therapy system to Tongji Hospital in Wuhan in China

News | Treatment Planning

Tongji Hospital Selects RayStation

April 7, 2022 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announces that Mevion China has placed an order for RayStation which Mevion ...

April 07, 2022

RaySearch has a strong position in the radiotherapy market in Canada with a market share of approximately 25 percent. Charles-Le Moyne hospital has been a RayStation customer since 2018.

News | Treatment Planning

Charles-Le Moyne Hospital in Canada Selects RayStation for Primary Treatment Planning System

February 18, 2022 — RaySearch has a strong position in the radiotherapy market in Canada with a market share of ...

February 18, 2022

A radiotherapy treatment plan for Accuray’s Tomotherapy system to kill white blood cells prior to a liver cancer patient undergoing a transplant. The treatment is aimed at the bone marrow and spares dose to most of the organs to reduce side effects. This was an example plan created on the new Volvo Ultra treatment planning system. The software allow planning for more than 100 cm of anatomy. It also allows users to drag target dose values of the main graph and the system will recalculate all the doses.

Gallery | ASTRO | By Dave Fornell, ITN Editor

Photo Gallery of Technologies at ASTRO 2021

This is an image gallery of technologies on display on the expo floor at the 2021 American Society of Radiation Oncology ...

November 08, 2021

Prevencio, Inc. presented data demonstrating that its artificial intelligence (AI) driven HART CVE blood test scores strongly correlate with subsequent adverse cardiac events in lung cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment.

News | Treatment Planning

Prevencio and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Data Demonstrates Significant Correlation of AI-driven HART CVE Blood Test Scores with Development of Adverse Heart Events Following Cancer Radiation Treatment

October 27, 2021 — Prevencio, Inc. presented data demonstrating that its artificial intelligence (AI) driven HART CVE ...

October 27, 2021

Novocure’s proprietary TTFields platform within the radiation oncology community.

News | Radiation Oncology

Novocure Announces 15 Presentations at ASTRO21

October 21, 2021 — Novocure announced 15 presentations on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) will be featured at the ...

October 21, 2021

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) will be showcasing the latest oncology software innovations at ESTRO 2021, to be held in Madrid Aug. 27-30. Attendees will be able to book demonstrations of the RayStation treatment planning system, RayIntelligence the cloud-based oncology analytics system, and RayCare the oncology information system during the congress.

News | Radiation Oncology

Latest Innovations from RayStation, RayIntelligence and RayCare to be Presented at ESTRO 2021

August 30, 2021 — RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) will be showcasing the latest oncology software innovations at ESTRO ...

August 30, 2021

LAP announced it has strengthened its partnership with leading integrated oncology care provider, GenesisCare, to continue providing advanced treatment planning software in radiation oncology centers around the globe.

News | Treatment Planning

GenesisCare Renews RadCalc QA Software in 173 Radiation Oncology Centers

August 3, 2021 — LAP announced it has strengthened its partnership with leading integrated oncology care provider ...

August 03, 2021

Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, the world’s largest annual radiology forum, to be held at McCormick Place Chicago, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2021

News | RSNA

Registration Now Open for RSNA21

July 21, 2021 — Registration is now open for the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 107th Scientific Assembly ...

July 21, 2021

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An Analysis of the Treatment Planning Systems Market

The rapid increase in global cancer prevalence is driving the demand for innovative and accurate oncology treatment ...

July 07, 2021

RaySearch Laboratories AB announced an extension of its relationship with Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland, which will include orders for RayStation RayCare and RayIntelligence.

News | Oncology Information Management Systems (OIMS)

Raysearch Signs Agreements with Switzerland Clinics

June 28, 2021 — RaySearch Laboratories AB announced an extension of its relationship with Centre hospitalier ...

June 28, 2021

Brain tumors edged out by artificial intelligence: VBrain applies auto-contouring to the three most common types of brain tumors: brain metastasis, meningioma and acoustic neuroma.

News | Artificial Intelligence

Vysioneer Receives FDA Clearance on First-Ever Tumor Auto-Contouring Solution for Radiation Therapy

April 7, 2021 — Vysioneer, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) for cancer care, announced it received the U.S. Food ...

April 07, 2021

Stefan Vilsmeier Brainlab announced the acquisition of Mint Medical GmbH, a Heidelberg-based company that develops image reading and reporting software for clinical routine and research

News | Treatment Planning

Brainlab Acquires Mint Medical

March 10, 2021 — Brainlab announced the acquisition of Mint Medical GmbH, a Heidelberg-based company that develops image ...

March 10, 2021

Axial fused PET/CT image shows intense uptake (arrowhead) in the deep pelvis corresponding to the left lobe of the prostate in a 62-year-old with a history of prostate cancer treated with radiation therapy. The CT scan does not show the tumor. Image courtesy of the the Radiological Society of North America.

Feature | Treatment Planning | By Melinda Taschetta-Millane

Using PET to Enhance Prostate Treatment Planning

The decision to offer radiation after prostatectomy for patients with recurrent prostate cancer is quite complex, and ...

March 05, 2021

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. announced today that UroPartners, the largest urology practice in Illinois and top five in the nation, has chosen to standardize on the Persona CT computed tomography (CT) system to accelerate their oncology treatment planning capabilities

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

Fujifilm Announces CT Partnership with Leading Urology Group UroPartners

December 17, 2020 — Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. announced that UroPartners, the largest urology practice in ...

December 17, 2020