RadPro 365 Live News-Zone for August 2019

Artificial intelligence can help you streamline prostate cancer treatment planning

MVision’s new artificial intelligence (AI) contouring software saves your clinic time and resources by reducing the manual work involved in QAR contouring. Our product uses cutting-edge deep learning technology to automatically produce consistent, reliable contours of critical structures in radiotherapy.

Go to the MVISION website

Ready to get started? Contact IEL on marketing@imagingequipment.co.uk or call us on 01761 417402

Pic: MVISION pathway

Can you use AI to assist in CCTV surveillance systems and might this assist in Radiotherapy?

Limitations in the ability of humans to vigilantly monitor video surveillance live footage led to the demand for artificial intelligence that could better serve the task. Humans watching a single video monitor for more than twenty minutes lose 95% of their ability to maintain attention sufficient to discern significant events. With two monitors this is cut in half again…and so can impact on patient safety and security in radiotherapy. This is the main reason why the RTrak system was designed that changes a simple CCTV system into an alarm device monitoring unwanted patient motion, you can read more in the August Blog above or by clicking here.
 

• The best way to quantify MRI 3D geometric distortion -  watch here.

Elekta

• Reduce install and commission time with Elekta's "Accelerated Go Live" program - watch here.

Xstrahl

• Follow the journey of an orthovoltage radiotherapy patient at the Cheltenham General Hospital, UK - watch here.

RaySearch

• A world of experience - RayStation with machine learning - watch here. 

IEL

• MVISION AI in Radiotherapy - watch here.

PTW

• Track-it QA management software - watch here.

•  Full Range of MR Solutions from IEL endorsed by MR Manufacturers,  read more. 

• First carbon ion case in Heidelberg, read here.
• Financial update from RaySearch, read here.

• MRI Linac clinical study, read more.
• 3# APBI for breast cancer clinical trial, read more. 
   

• New Monte-Carlo dose engine, read here.
• New Sarrp beamline for proton-photon-carbon and flash research, read more.

• New reference site in Belgium for PTW, read more.
• PTW Dosimetry School celebrates 5th Anniversary, read more.
  
   

What we’re reading in the Press and International Media, some selected thought-provoking stories:
 

Two new state of the art RT delivery concepts
Radiotherapy targets tumours precisely - with less damage to healthy cells…using VHEE or very high energy electron beams

A new way of concentrating radiotherapy dose in tumours, while minimising damage to healthy cells, has been proposed in research led by scientists at the University of Strathclyde.
The study proposes that focusing high-energy particle beams on a small spot deep inside the body could potentially enable clinicians to target cancerous tumours precisely, while reducing the dose to surrounding tissue.
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FLASH radiotherapy: from preclinical promise to the first human treatment

FLASH radiotherapy – it’s the technique that’s got everyone talking. The idea is that delivering radiation at ultrahigh dose rates, roughly 50 Gy/s and above, will vastly reduce normal tissue toxicity while preserving anti-tumour activity.

The premise has been demonstrated in preclinical studies by several research groups and, as delegates at the recent AAPM Annual Meeting heard, the first human treatment has just taken place. A dedicated symposium examining the promise of FLASH saw a ballroom packed full of delegates keen to find out more about this cutting-edge treatment.

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Its ten years ago since the first order of a RayStation treatment planning system!

This summer marks the ten-year anniversary since the first order of the treatment planning system RayStation.

In 2022 PTW will celebrate 100 years in the Radiation Dosimetry business!
 

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