New technology enhancements from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), designed to make radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatments faster, more accurate, and easier to plan and deliver, will be on display at the annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) in Chicago next week. The Varian booth at ASTRO will provide a glimpse into the company's R&D pipeline of future technologies for managing cancer care from diagnosis to survivorship.
"Varian's exhibit this year reflects our ongoing commitment to R&D, and the continual improvement of all of our technologies," says Dow Wilson, president of Varian's Oncology Systems business. "We're showcasing enhancements designed to make it simpler, faster, and easier for treatment centers to offer the highly-accurate image-guided forms of treatment that are opening the door to new possibilities for the treatment of lung tumors, for example, and other types of cancer that have been difficult to treat with radiation in the past."
Varian's Exhibit at ASTRO
Displays in Varian's booth at the McCormick Convention Center will cover the full range of the company's hardware and software products for radiotherapy treatment planning, image guidance, treatment delivery, and information and patient record management. Some of the highlights will include:
- RapidArc® radiotherapy technology. Now in use at over 270 cancer treatment centers worldwide, RapidArc is being used to deliver IMRT, and also stereotactic body radiosurgery in the treatment of lung, liver, kidney, spine, and brain cancer, more quickly than was possible with earlier technologies.
- Megavoltage (MV) image guidance, a new capability that makes it possible to use a pair of megavoltage images to position patients for image-guided treatments.
- Varian application virtualization, which links geographically-dispersed workstations to Varian's software products, in order to facilitate collaboration across departments and streamline treatment planning and patient chart management.
- Acuros(TM) advanced dose calculation for brachytherapy, which speeds up brachytherapy treatment planning and enhances the accuracy of dose calculations. In addition to the currently-available Acuros brachytherapy tool, a works-in-progress version
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