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Medical Radiation Oncology
Main Content
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Image courtesy of Elekta ![Photo of person demonstrating Venezia equipment.png](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Departments/Radiation-Oncology/images/Venezia-Demo.png)
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Image courtesy of Elekta
Technology and Treatments
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Gamma Knife ICON
Treatments: Frameless and frame-based gamma knife radiosurgery (SRS) and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT), (Brain Mets, benign conditions, and functional disorders):
- Brain Mets-Single, Multiple & re-peat SRS
- Salvage role for gliomas
- Benign conditions- meningioma, pituitary adenomas, schwannoma, craniopharyngioma, haemangioblastoma, and central neurocytoma
Elekta Linear Accelerator – Versa HD
![Photo of the Gamma Knife ICON courtesy of Elekta](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Departments/Radiation-Oncology/images/LGK-Icon-Front-View.jpg)
![Photo of Patient Set-up in Elekta Linear Accelerator, Versa HD.png](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Departments/Radiation-Oncology/images/Patient-Set-up-of-Active-Breathing.png)
Treatments:
- Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT)
- IMRT
- VMAT
- IGRT – Imaging- Cone Beam CT, MV & kV planar imaging
- SBRT
- Electron Therapy
- TBI
![Photo of Flexitron](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Departments/Radiation-Oncology/images/Flexitron.png)
![Photo of person demonstrating Venezia equipment.png](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Departments/Radiation-Oncology/images/Venezia-Demo.png)
Brachytherapy
- Remote afterloader HDR brachytherapy
- Eye Plaque LDR brachytherapy
Raystation
- Improved workflows for dose tracking and adaptive re-planning
- Faster loading of patient cases with a large amount of data
- Localize isocenter function now available in all beam lists
- Improved conformance to target for VMAT segments
- Significantly faster optimization of CyberKnife plans with cone and iris
- Improved dose centering during delivery when using Motion Synchronization for Radixact treatment machines
- Possibility to define several machine parameters per beam quality
Enhanced leaf and jaw tip modeling for electrons
- Display of gamma curves and dose difference curves during beam modeling
- Point-based optimization
- Nuclear interaction correction (NIC) introduced in the light ion pencil beam dose engine
- Improved LET computation using the trichrome fluence model
Gamma Knife Lightning
- Potential beam-on time reduction by up to 50%
- Simultaneous dose control to multiple targets and organs at risk
- High-quality conformal treatment plans in less than a minute
![Photo of Consultant Studying Oncentra Brachytherapy Images.png](/som/Departments and Offices/SOM Departments/Radiation-Oncology/images/Oncentra-Brachy-Consultant-Studying.png)
Oncentra
- Applicator modeling and library planning allow increased efficiency in brachytherapy planning.
- IPSA and HIPO inverse optimization algorithms offer ideal dosimetry even with complex interstitial geometries.