Health Imaging & IT - October 2007 - (Page 17) ASTRO7 ‘treating Cancer While Preserving Quality of life’ Some 12,000 attendees are expected to fill the los Angeles convention center for AStro’s 49th Annual meeting, oct. 28 –nov. 1. this year’s theme, “treating cancer While preserving Quality of life,” embraces all aspects of oncologic care. educational opportunities abound at the premier scientific meeting in radiation oncology. nearly 1,300 abstracts are being presented in plenary sessions, oral presentations, poster discussion sessions and poster viewings. Additionally, more than 260 exhibitors are showcasing the latest in technology and product development in cancer treatment and care. ing power of dual Intel processors to deliver superior 3D image rendering, real-time image manipulation, and rapid calculation times. XiO supports proton as well as conventional photon and electron planning. Healthcare (Booth 909) is exhibiting the LightSpeed RT 16 featuring wide-bore capacities including thin, high-resolution multidetector imaging, 4D retrospective respiratory gathering capability and advanced oncology applications. Discovery VCT for PET/ CT provides a complete set of clinical PET/CT image of a tumor of applications to help physicians provide the colon acquired with the GE Discovery VCT. accurate disease diagnosis, staging, treatment planning and follow up. PET VCAR offers workflow enhancements for single- and multi-exam review. AdvantageSim MD featuring Advantage 4D, helps clinicians to plan in 4D, utilize multiple modalities simultaneously and combine 4D and multi-modality simulation together. The company’s Signa HD MR scanner for head, neck, spine and soft tissue tumors, available in 1.5T or 3.0T, also will be showcased. and precise. Tumor Localization, designed for fast and simple CT tumor volume localization, includes exclusive features for viewing respiratory correlated CT datasets and the analyzing motion of the target and surrounding anatomy. ☀ ge ☀ Siemens Medical Solutions (Booth 1419) is exhibiting CTVision, which integrates a linear accelerator and a CT gantry that travels along rails (CT-on-rails). The MVision Megavoltage Cone Beam Imaging Package is a volumetric in-line target imaging solution that employs the existing treatment beam. Offered on all Siemens linear accelerators, MVision provides the 3D soft-tissue contrast necessary for many disease sites. Siemens solutions are complemented by the syngo Suite for Oncology, a comprehensive software solution that unites the clinical team with tools and data. Siemens also is demonstrating syngo TrueD, which allows users to simultaneously fuse and compare up to three PET/CT and SPECT/CT studies. highlighting its “smart” radiotherapy treatment planning tool, the new Smart Segmentation feature, which received 501(k) clearance in August and has been added to Varian’s Eclipse treatment planning product. As the world’s first fully automatic tool that uses intelligent software to identify and outline organs and The Smart Segmentation feature of other structures within diagnostic im- Varian’s Eclipse automatically identifies ages of the thorax and male pelvis, it organs and structures in the male pelvis in less than 45 seconds. can automatically identify all of the structures of interest in less than 45 seconds. Varian’s Eclipse treat-ment planning product enables clinicians to plan a wide array of radiation therapy treatments including IMRT, IGRT, stereotactic radiosurgery, brachytherapy and proton therapy. ☀ Varian Medical Systems (Booth 419) is ☀ Medical intelligence (Booth 1701) an Elekta company, is launching the new HexaPOD evo RT System and showcasing the robotic patient-positioning platform’s latest features. HexaPOD evo CouchTop provides vision-guided patient positioning by incorporating the well-known features of the precursor HexaPOD CouchTop with improved patient access and clearance aperture. A reduction in the height of the HexaPOD evo CouchTop assists in patient loading and unloading (the total height is 19.2 c.m/7.6 inches of which the height of the existing couchtop should be deducted). ☀ Philips Medical Systems (Booth 1919) is showcasing its newly released Pinnacle3 workstation, System 810, equipped with AMD Opteron CPUs, Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system and custom hardware. Pinnacle3 Web Publishing is a work-in-progress, Breast images on the Philips Pinnacle3 workstation with Tumor Localization. web-based departmental solution for radiation oncology plan review and approval. Pinnacle3 Toolbox Version 8.0h includes physics modeling tools to help physicists determine that a dose algorithm is accurate HealthImaging.com ☀ Vidar Systems Corporation (Booth 1206) is displaying several enhancements to its DosimetryPRO Advantage x-ray film digitizer for radiation therapy applications. They include: USB connectivity; RoHS compliance (all components in the DosimetryPRO Advantage meet the new European Union standards for lead-free electronics); a Red LED version for use with International Specialty Products EBT film (full release of the DosimetryPRO Advantage with Red LED is planned for early 2008); and new removable LED lighting system (the previous fluorescent lamp design has been replaced with an LED cartridge lighting system for longer lamp life). Health Imaging & IT | O C T O B E R 2 0 07 17 http://HealthImaging.com
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