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Image-Guided Brachytherapy

Increasingly, imaging is playing a major role in brachytherapy as an aid to decision making for the appropriate target location, for guiding the placement of applicators in that location, and for performing treatment plans that derive the optimal radiation prescription—as conformal as possible to the target.

Varian has both led and supported IGBT with specific product developments:

• The BrachyVision™ treatment planning system is designed as a 3D image-based system. With BrachyVision, the physician can co-register multiple 3D image data sets such as Computerized Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance (MR), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Ultrasound (US), and easily navigate through those images using translation and rotation tools to get the best possible view of where the target and critical tissues are in relation to the brachytherapy applicators and dose.
• Titanium applicators provide the optimum in visualization in both CT and MRI imaging modalities. In addition, applicators manufactured from titanium are easily sterilized, of lightweight yet robust construction and have the added benefits of small diameter tandems for easy insertion.
• The BrachySuite marries Varian's Acuity™ Radiotherapy Simulator with an HDR afterloader in a procedure room where imaging, including flat panel planar digital images and cone beam CT imaging, can guide the placement of applicators, and help create the treatment plan. The BrachySuite also allows treatment of the patient without the logistic and applicator movement problems associated with moving the patient between applicator placement, imaging, and treatment delivery steps.
• The VariSeed™ treatment planning system for permanent seed prostate brachytherapy, provides tools for real time dosimetry superimposed on live US images, that allow the dose to be displayed to the physician as the implant progresses.
• The Vitesse™ treatment planning system allows the capture of needle placement data together with transrectal US (TRUS) images captured at the time of implant, for rapid, potentially real time, IGBT for HDR prostate cancer.

 

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