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.
News | Treatment Planning | January 30, 2017
January 30, 2017 — The Department of Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has chosen RayStation as its...
News | Radiation Therapy | January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017 — Elekta announced new data demonstrating Leksell Gamma Knife better spares healthy brain tissue and...
Technology | Treatment Planning | December 20, 2016
December 20, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Siemens’ Somatom...
News | Treatment Planning | October 27, 2016
October 27, 2016 — University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands has selected RayStation as its...
News | Radiation Therapy | October 18, 2016
October 18, 2016 — RaySearch demonstrated new features in the upcoming release of its proprietary treatment planning...
News | Radiation Therapy | October 07, 2016
October 7, 2016 — Philips Healthcare featured its latest integrated imaging and treatment planning solutions for...
News | Radiation Therapy | September 26, 2016
September 26, 2016 — RaySearch and Mevion Medical Systems are extending their collaboration agreement to support the...
News | Treatment Planning | September 15, 2016
September 14, 2016 — RapidPlan knowledge-based treatment planning software can improve quality control in radiotherapy...
Technology | Proton Therapy | September 14, 2016
September 14, 2016 — P-Cure, provider of patient-centric solutions for proton therapy, has received U.S. Food and Drug...
News | Radiation Therapy | September 07, 2016
September 7, 2016 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced the press program for its 58th Annual...
News | Proton Therapy | September 06, 2016
September 6, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) and RaySearch Laboratories have entered into a long-term strategic...
News | Treatment Planning | August 26, 2016
August 26, 2016 — The latest version of Elekta’s Monaco treatment planning software was recently highlighted in...
News | Radiation Therapy | August 04, 2016
Elekta showcased the latest version of its treatment planning software, Monaco version 5.11 at the 58th American...
News | Radiation Therapy | July 29, 2016
Varian Medical Systems will be demonstrating its latest radiotherapy and radiosurgery technologies and software July 31...
Feature | Treatment Planning | July 06, 2016 | Melinda Taschetta-Millane
Treatment planning systems are at the heart of radiation therapy (RT) and the key to improved patient outcomes. Once...
News | Treatment Planning | May 10, 2016
May 10, 2016 — MIM Software Inc. announced that GenesisCare Australia has selected MIM Maestro as their radiotherapy...
RTx software image courtesy of Mirada Medical
News | Treatment Planning | May 02, 2016
May 2, 2016 — Mirada Medical announced it will showcase its latest solutions for radiotherapy, including RTx and...
Technology | Treatment Planning | May 02, 2016
May 2, 2016 — Elekta announced that Monaco version 5.11, the latest update to its treatment planning software, is...
The proton treatment plan for 5-year-old Ashya King, who made headlines in 2014 after his parents were arrested for taking him from a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in the U.K. and bringing him to a proton therapy center in the Czech Republic for treatment. Proton therapy was not available in the U.K. The boys cancer went into complete remission after the proton treatments. This treatment plan, overlaid on the CT scan, shows the proton delivery zones without penetration into health tissue in the child's thorax or abdomen.
Feature | Proton Therapy | April 05, 2016 | Dave Fornell
As proton therapy becomes more widely available, imaging for the development of proton treatment plans will become more...
Technology | March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016 — Philips Healthcare introduced the first commercially available magnetic resonance (MR)-only simulation...
