At ASTRO 2006, Philips will be showcasing advanced treatment-planning options and radiation oncology products designed to improve image quality and quantification capabilities, streamline workflow and aid in the ability to provide accurate diagnosis.
Philips-exclusive Tumor LOC application allows the user to assess motion of respiratory correlated studies. The ability to review patients’ breathing pattern and easily draw contours encompassing the range of motion over the entire respiratory cycle simplifies this procedure.

MVision, from Siemens Medical Solutions, is a volumetric in-line target imaging solution and the natural next step in Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT). Designed to work with Siemens’ linear accelerators, the system is the first commercial implementation of cone-beam technology utilizing a standard radiotherapy treatment beam. MVision makes it possible for the megavoltage (MV) source used for treatment to also create a 3-D image of the patient, enabling clinicians to “see inside” the patient at the most appropriate moment.

NOMOS Radiation Oncology, a division of North American Scientific, has announced that it received FDA clearance to market nomosSTAT, the serial tomotherapy automated treatment solution, which was introduced at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) in October 2005.
nomosSTAT integrates nomosSTAT MLC and AutoCrane with a single user interface and connects to the CORVUS IMRT inverse planning system.

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. will showcase its Aquilion Large Bore (LB) at this year’s ASTRO Meeting. With a bore opening of 90 cm and a 70 cm acquired field-of-view, the Aquilion LB makes it possible to accurately scan patients of all sizes in various positions for image acquisition during CT simulation.

The recently FDA-cleared breast brachytherapy device from North American Scientific is designed to allow for either low dose rate or high dose rate accelerated partial breast irradiation therapy. Both treatment options would be delivered over four or five days compared to the six-to-eight week whole breast irradiation treatment. The multichannel catheter device will be placed through a single incision, but will offer the unique ability to better conform to the resection cavity, allowing for more conformal dose distributions during treatment.

syngo Colonography with PEV (Polyp Enhanced Viewing) software is the the first FDA 510(k) cleared and commercially available enhanced colon viewing technology.
PEV is the latest addition to Siemens’ portfolio of computer enhancement tools. An optional add-on to the syngo Colonography application, PEV is designed as a second-reader tool for automated identification of lesions in the colon. It allows the radiologist to make a computer-assisted ‘second pass’ over the patient data, thus attempting to increase detection accuracy and reduce reading times.

The Vacora Vacuum Assisted Breast Biopsy System is a 100 percent self-contained vacuum assisted biopsy system weighing one pound. Everything has been integrated into the handpiece including the world’s smallest biopsy vacuum, all tubing, fluid canister, battery power source and biopsy needle.

With the market transitioning from analog to digital, wet long film processors are becoming obsolete. The Codonics Horizon XL Multi-media Imager is a dry film imager that supports 36- and 51-inch long film output for digital applications. The XL can print long bone studies, scoliosis and pediatric and adult spines on long film for surgical planning.
Instead of stitching the images from CR/DR applications, the images are printed on one continuous film up to 51 inches. The dry film is available in two sizes, 14-by-36-inches and 14-by-51-inches.

The new RadiForce GS510 and GS510-G 5 megapixel monochrome LCD monitors from Eizo Nanao Technologies are capable of providing diagnosis in digital mammography, DR and CR applications.
The GS510-G is a glare panel and the GS510 is an antiglare panel, and both offer high-fidelity images to detect hard-to-see calcifications and masses that can be valuable in digital mammography.

NightRays Tracker (NRT) is a color coded, online, dynamic patient list that clinicians and radiologists can use to access status updates on their cases. NRT information includes images, study status, patient demographics and paperwork, study alerts, reporting accuracy and more. Through this system, NightRays clients can also run stats at anytime on after-hours radiology activities. Clients can use as little or as much of it as they want. Radiologist clients of NightRays have the opportunity to use the same system the radiologists use for their own work.

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