MIOT Hospital Introduces Revolutionary New TrueBeam STX System for High-Precision Image-Guided Radiotherapy and Radio surgery.

 

New technology enables a radical new approach that expands radiotherapy treatment options for even the most challenging cases

 

Today MIOT Hospital is announcing the introduction of a new line of "super" accelerators designed to advance the treatment of lung, breast, prostate, head and neck, and other types of cancer.  The TrueBeam platform for image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery is the first fully-integrated system designed from the ground up to treat a moving target with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The commissioning of the TrueBeam STX System will take place during the month of June 2011.

 

Faster, More Precise Systems

A TrueBeam system can deliver treatments up to 50 percent faster with a dose delivery rate of up to 2400 monitor units per minute, double the maximum output of earlier, industry-leading Varian systems. This makes it possible to offer greater patient comfort by shortening treatments, and to improve precision by leaving less time for tumor motion during dose delivery.  

 

"Intelligent" automation further speeds treatments with an up to five-fold reduction in the number of steps needed for imaging, positioning and treating patients.  A standard intensity-modulated treatment that would typically take ten minutes can be completed in less than two minutes.  Complex radiosurgery that typically takes 40 minutes to an hour, can be completed in just 5 to 20 minutes.  "When we introduced Rapid Arc radiotherapy, we were thrilled to see treatments done in about 2 minutes. "With TrueBeam, Rapid Arc treatments can now be completed in about a minute."  
 

The precision of a TrueBeam STx system is measured in increments of less than a millimeter.  This accuracy is made possible by the system's sophisticated architecture, which establishes a new level of synchronization between imaging, patient positioning, motion management, beam shaping, and dose delivery technologies, performing accuracy checks every ten milliseconds throughout an entire treatment. Over 100,000 data points are monitored continually as a treatment progresses, ensuring that the system maintains a "true isocenter," or focal point of treatment.
 

"This increased level of precision will make it possible for doctors to treat a moving lung tumor as if it were standing still.(1)  "By synchronizing treatment with tumor position changes throughout the respiratory cycle, doctors will be able to reduce the margin of healthy tissue affected by the treatment beam."
 

The TrueBeam STx system also delivers Varian's new 'gated' Rapid Arc radiotherapy, which compensates for tumor motion by synchronizing imaging with dose delivery during a continuous rotation around the patient.  "This exciting new capability makes Rapid Arc an even more powerful tool for treating cancers of the thorax, such as lung and liver cancer, when tumor motion is an issue.
 

Other innovations built in to the TrueBeam STx system include:

 

	A streamlined treatment console with a modern, graphical, easy-to-use interface that consolidates all controls for imaging, treatment, and motion management.  Treatment processes and workflows are simplified and easy to learn, with prompts, messages, and a "follow the light" guidance system that enhances safety by guiding therapists through the steps of even the most complex treatments.  "One button" IGRT enables the therapist to spend more time attending to the patient, and less time managing the technology.
	A newly-designed X-ray tube is optimized for generating high volumes of quality 3-D (cone-beam CT) images.
	These 3-D images can be generated in 60% less time, with a 25% reduction in X-ray dose to the patient.
	A treatment couch that can be positioned with sub-millimeter accuracy in relation to imaging and beam delivery processes.
	A unique new non-clinical Developer Mode designed to facilitate collaboration with Oncology thought leaders interested in pioneering new treatment and imaging techniques.

 

True Beam STX

 

	MIOT has signed first TrueBeam STx purchase Contract with Varian Medical Systems for India.
	Equipment is already Cleared by AERB and will be installed by June 2011
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	First High Intensity Flatting Filter free mode with Dose rate of 2500 MU/MIN
	Delivery Time four times faster than normal Linac.
	Gated Rapid Arc Treatment
	The TrueBeam STx system is a radically new solution that is faster and more powerful, giving clinicians the ability to navigate the complexities of cancer care with confidence, including challenging cases in the brain, spine, lung,  liver and prostate
	The system uses sophisticated imaging and respiration synchronization tools to visualize soft tissue during treatment and make changes accordingly.
	With new beam-shaping capabilities using the High-Intensity Mode, it enables the delivery of larger doses in smaller places.
	Now clinicians can perform radiosurgery procedures with exceptional ease and speed, with most treatments taking only a few minutes a day.
	TrueBeam STx—innovative, intelligent and intuitive.