What is RayStation?
RayStation. RayStation*, the next generation of treatment planning systems and the first to include machine learning* and deep learning* features. It provides multi-criteria optimization, ultrafast computation speed and 4D adaptive radiation therapy.
What is radiotherapy planning method?
Before you begin radiation treatment, your radiation therapy team carefully plans your treatment in a process called radiation simulation. Treatment planning usually involves positioning your body, making marks on your skin and taking imaging scans.
What is Varian Eclipse?
Varian's Eclipse software, which is in use at some 3,400 cancer treatment centers around the world, optimizes a radiotherapy treatment plan based on a physician's dose instructions, and information about the size, shape and location of the tumor to be treated with radiation.
Who makes radiation treatment plan?
Final decisions regarding the treatment plan are made by the radiation oncologist. Many dosimetrists start as radiation therapists and with intensive training, become medical dosimetrists. Others are graduates of one- to two-year dosimetry programs. The Medical Dosimetrist Certification Board certifies dosimetrists.
What is 2D planning in radiotherapy?
Conventional (2D) radiation therapy refers to the old techniques of radiation therapy where treatments would be planned by defining a limited number of beams with the boundaries delineated on orthogonal x-rays of the patient.
What does Varian Medical Systems do?
Varian Medical Systems is an American radiation oncology treatments and software maker based in Palo Alto, California. Their medical devices include linear accelerators (LINACs) and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, and brachytherapy.
What is Varian ethos?
An Adaptive Intelligence™ Solution Ethos™ therapy is a comprehensive, revolutionary new therapy that is patient-centric and personalized—from initial planning to on-couch adaptation and treatment monitoring.
What is Varian halcyon?
Halcyon® system gives you the fast and high-quality treatments you want—and the comfort and convenience your patients need—to win the fight against cancer. Watch Video.
What is Raystation's treatment planning system?
Advanced plan-generating protocols, scripting, automated breast planning, fallback planning, machine learning and plan explorer are some of the tools available in RayStation — the first treatment planning system to incorporate machine learning applications.
What is RayStation breast planning?
The automated breast planning solution in RayStation is the first step in our journey to automate routine and standard procedures. RayAutoBreast was initially developed in Toronto, Canada. Between 2009 and 2012, clinicians at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) ran a large-scale clinical study to evaluate the performance of automated treatment planning for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for tangential breast treatments. They concluded that it could add tremendous degrees of efficiency and standardization, as well as quality to current treatment planning processes. The use of automated procedures will allow for faster adoption of IMRT together with increased access to care improvements for breast cancer patients [1].
How does Raystation work?
RayStation automates parts of the treatment planning process with support for tools such as templates and plan-generation protocols. These are the steps in the planning process which can be automated, such as using atlas-based segmentation, creating plans, setting dose grid resolution, adding beams and optimization functions or settings. Protocols create plans automatically, which drastically reduces planning time.
How does fallback planning work?
Fallback planning use s a dose mimicking function to replicate the DVHs of a given plan, but for a different machine or treatment modality.
What is Plan Explorer?
Plan explorer is based on the capability to automatically generate a large number of treatment plans for defined clinical goals and combinations of treatment techniques and machines. It also provides efficient means to filter and browse among plan candidates to find the most desired one. In addition, the plan candidates can be generated using machine learning models which also enables automatically generating several plans from one model with different tradeoff priorities.
What is raystation treatment?
Because RayStation is a complete treatment planning system that supports many different modalities, planning of proton treatments in conjunction with photons is possible . The fallback planning module also enables proton plans to be converted into photon plans, ensuring there is no interruption in treatment.
What is an updated treatment plan?
Based on the daily images, an updated treatment plan can be automatically suggested to the care team at the time of a treatment session. A plan adaptation that takes the patient’s current situation into account can thus be made before treatment delivery starts.
What are the features of Raystation 10B?
Highlights in RayStation®* 10B include: Monte Carlo Dose engine now on GPU, cutting the dose computation to under five seconds for most cases. Machine learning autoplanning with robustness (New!)
What is proton therapy?
Proton therapy is a highly precise treatment method, which also makes it sensitive to change. RaySearch understands this, our software RayStation treatment planning system is designed to account for every eventuality.
What is Raystation's ability to simulate motion?
The ability to simulate organ motion in RayStation strengthens the functionality of robust planning and plan evaluation even further. With the ability to generate simulated images for organ motion, the full effect of the changing anatomy can be evaluated without the need of acquiring multiple patient CT scans.
What is high precision in proton therapy?
A basic fact of proton therapy is that high precision also means sensitivity to change. RaySearch understands this, and we’ve designed the RayStation treatment planning system to account for every eventuality. 1:56.
What is RaySearch software?
RaySearch ® is a medical technology company that develops innovative software solutions for improved cancer treatment. RaySearch markets the RayStation ® * treatment planning system (TPS) and the oncology information system (OIS) RayCare ® *. The most recent additions to the RaySearch product line are RayIntelligence ® and RayCommand ®. RayIntelligence is an oncology analytics system (OAS) which enables cancer clinics to collect, structure and analyze data. RayCommand, a treatment control system (TCS), is designed to link the treatment machine and the treatment planning and oncology information systems.
Where is RaySearch located?
The company also announced it plans to expand to new headquarters in a purpose-built life sciences district of Stockholm, Sweden, in 2021. *Regulatory clearance required in some markets.
Who is RaySearch partnering with?
Over the following years, RaySearch expands the business, partnering with Nucletron, IBA Dosimetry, TomoTherapy and Varian, and seeks closer collaboration with the clinical world too. Together with Princess Margaret Hospital in Canada, RaySearch pioneers the field of adaptive radiation therapy.
Who is the founder of RaySearch?
The RaySearch story begins in 2000 when founder and CEO, Johan Löf, decides to start the company based on the scientific knowledge acquired during his PhD on radiation treatment of moving tumors at the Karolinska Institute.
What is RaySearch 10B?
RayStation* 10B offered support for brachytherapy planning and a speed revolution in proton Monte Carlo dose computation. The advanced system was selected by Norway’s first national proton therapy center, Germany’s Heidelberg University Hospital for helium-ion, and South Korea's Yonsei Cancer Center for superconducting carbon gantry rooms. It entered clinical use at proton centers in Spain and supported BNCT in Japan. A distribution deal for the South African market was signed and the first clinic in South America went live with RayStation for the Radixact® radiation therapy system from Accuray. RayCare* 4A and 4B arrived with new functionalities and enhancements. Elsewhere, RaySearch entered into an interoperability agreement with Varian Medical Systems and launched the oncology analytics system RayIntelligence*.
What is Raycommand software?
RayCommand ® * is the latest addition to our suite of oncology software and a renewal of our promise to advance cancer treatment. It addresses the demand for a treatment control system that is compatible with multiple hardware models and supports the advanced functionalities of newer, more modern treatment machines and software systems.
What is a TCS?
The idea to develop a TCS resulted from a collaboration agreement between RaySearch and AVO to develop a comprehensive software solution for the proton therapy system AVO LIGHT. This sparked a great deal of interest from other industrial and clinical partners as well. One of them is MedAustron, specializing in particle therapy and research. They have decided to go with a truly integrated solution with the RayStation treatment planning system, RayCare oncology information system and RayCommand treatment control system. RayCommand acts as a link between the treatment machine and the treatment planning and oncology information systems. It coordinates and orchestrates the different systems involved, such as the imaging systems, the beam delivery system and the patient support system.
Is Raycommand compatible with particle therapy?
As a first step RayCommand is applicable only for particle therapy but will also support photon therapy in the future.
Is particle therapy sensitive to changes?
Particle therapy is very sensitive to changes of anatomy or setup under treatment and now this closed cycle of fast treatment adaptations is possible within one clinic wide accessible platform in a very user-friendly environment.”.
VMAT
Design of single or multiple-arc VMAT plans is made easy. Direct and simultaneous optimization of all treatment parameters allows for high-quality plans.
3D-CRT
All the manual and automatic tools you need to create high-quality 3D-CRT plans in an efficient and consistent way.
IMRT
State-of-the-art tools to design and optimize IMRT plans in a way that increases treatment quality while enabling faster planning and delivery.
Virtual Simulation
A fully integrated workspace and comprehensive toolbox for virtual simulation.
Electron
Working with mixed electron and photon plans is straightforward. Multiple, coupled or independent beams sets can be applied in the same plan.
