Nucletron said the FDA cleared its Oncentra Brachy, a comprehensive volume-based treatment planning solution designed to optimize cancer treatment planning with brachytherapy.

Elekta recently received FDA clearance for its Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT).

Reportedly empowering clinicians to treat more patients in significantly less time, Elekta VMAT offers the clinical efficacy of IMRT delivered in a fraction of the time, providing rapid treatment with daily 3D image guidance. Features of VMAT include faster treatment times, precise dose control, reduced radiation dose to healthy tissue and 3D Volumetric imaging.

The Piranha and Barracuda reportedly offer a complete range of capabilities to measure the important QA parameters on all types of X-ray systems. Both are based on solid-state technology. The Barracuda has available bias voltage for the use of ionization chambers.

BrainLAB said it received 510(k) clearance for its Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Algorithm, which is already being used at several clinical cooperation sites worldwide.

Calypso Medical's implantable Beacon electromagnetic transponders received a new FDA indication for the use of with the Calypso System in external beam radiation therapy.

Orfit Industries America's Efficast thermoplastic mask, part of the Raycast High-precision Patient Immobilization/Positioning System, which applies a new technology for head, neck and shoulder immobilization systems used in radiation therapy, is on display at ASTRO 2008.

The system is said to allow for less than 2 mm of movement by the patient. Orfit is also offering a hands-on demonstration of the system for the duration of the show at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

TQA, or Tomo Quality Assurance, is reportedly the first integrated, machine-specific quality assurance (QA) solution to be offered by a radiation therapy vendor. The TQA application streamlines the collection and simplifies the review of data used to monitor radiation therapy equipment and procedures. All TQA data can be exported for third-party validation.

Bionix Radiation Therapy’s Prone Breast System utilizes prone positioning for breast treatment to deliver less irradiation to the lung, cardiac tissue and contralateral breast. Gravity is utilized to separate cancerous masses from surrounding lung and cardiac tissue and for greater reproducibility of the breast being treated.

BrachySciences recently introduced its AnchorSeed, which features a patent pending design intended to give existing low dose rate prostate brachytherapy sources the ability to maintain their position within tissue, thereby allowing physicians to confidently place seeds in more strategic and beneficial locations than in the past.

July 31, 2008 — eHealth Global Technologies released its eHealthConnect online request service designed to streamline the process required for institutions to retrieve outside patient medical records for referred-in patients.

The online request service provides customized forms for each healthcare institution customer of eHealth Global, and automatically generates the appropriate HIPAA release of information forms to allow access to these records under HIPAA guidelines.

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