Features Include:

• Dual Energy Photons (6 & 18 MV)
• Five Electron Energies (6,9,12,15,20 MeV)
• Dynamic Leaf motion for IMRT
• Respiratory Gating
• Electronic portal imaging
• Varis Record and Verify System

Features include:

• Dual Energy Photons (6 & 18 MV)
• Five Electron Energies (6, 9, 12, 16, 20 MeV)
• Portal Imaging
• Varis Record and Verify System
• 3-D Conformal Radiation Therapy

Features include:

• HDR (High Dose Rate Brachytherapy)
• 3-D Conformal planning capabilities using BrachyVision
• In-room C-arm fluoroscopy
• Smallest available Ir192 source (.59mm x 5mm) allowing for fine gauge needles
• Internal CamScale™ system for accurate confirmation of wire position accuracy
• Multiple wire position sensors
• On-board radiation detector
• Emergency retract system
• Back-up power

The CT Simulation is used to localize, define, and reconstruct, in 3-dimensions, a patient's tumor in the most accurate way possible. Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs (DRRs) are created from CT data to build a virtual patient model. DRR enhanced tools, such as custom mixing and blending, enable the clear visualization of prostate, bladder, kidneys, vertebral body, and bone simultaneously, in addition to the delineation of soft tissues and airways. This process identifies the tumor as well as the normal tissue surrounding it, allowing your physician to design a treatment plan unique to each patient.

All of the data is downloaded from the CT Simulator to the Eclipse Treatment Planning Computer where using virtual simulation software the physician delineates the target and from this the treatment plan is developed. The approved treatment plan is then sent to the treatment machine for the patient’s treatment sessions.

This a state of the art x-ray unit used for treatment planning purposes in the effort to find the area to be treated thusly creating a template for the patient’s treatment.