Accuray to Showcase CyberKnife® and Radixact™ Systems at ESTRO 2017
"At ESTRO 2017,
Meeting highlights and events:
- Innovations in treatment planning and delivery:
- The Radixact System: the smart radiation therapy system representing the next generation in TomoTherapy® treatment delivery, significantly increasing treatment speed, efficiency and ease of use and enabling customers to deliver precise radiation treatments to a high volume of patients.
- The CyberKnife M6 System: next generation platform includes treatment delivery functionalities designed to improve the user's system experience and reduce treatment delivery times. It features the Accuray Precision™ Treatment Planning System and enhanced Synchrony® Respiratory Motion Tracking System, the only real-time motion management system that synchronizes beam delivery with movements of the target resulting from respiration.
- The Accuray Precision Treatment Planning System: provides fully integrated treatment planning with all compatible
Accuray delivery systems, enabling clinicians to efficiently generate the highest quality radiation therapy treatments for all case types. Demonstrations will be conducted throughout the meeting. - RayStation® 6 Treatment Planning System: the latest release of RayStation enables clinicians to create treatment plans for the Radixact and TomoTherapy Systems, as well as conventional linear accelerators*. Demonstrations of RayStation 6 will be conducted at the
Accuray andRaySearch booths. *Not 510k cleared or available for commercial distribution. - Accuray Exchange in Radiation Oncology (AERO™):
AERO Academy sessions will be held daily atAccuray at booth #1400 throughout the meeting.Accuray hosts these presentations to provide clinicians with the opportunity to engage in interactive discussions on the real-world use ofAccuray technologies. Topics include CyberKnife prostate SBRT, management of lung tumors, breast treatments using TomoDirect™ and initiating use of a Radixact System. For more information, please visit: http://www.accuray.com/estro36/. - Educational symposium: on
Saturday, May 6 , from 13:15 to 14:15 in the Stolz Rooms 1 & 2, a panel of renowned experts will provide their perspectives on the role of radiotherapy in cancer care and the versatility of the CyberKnife® and TomoTherapy® Systems which makes it possible to effectively treat the most common cancer cases: - Dr.
Cary Adams , CEO,Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and Chair ,NCD Alliance ,Geneva, Switzerland , will discuss how radiotherapy plays a central role in driving treatment for all patients; - Prof.
Vincent Khoo ,The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust ,London, United Kingdom , will shed light on how high and fast we can go in prostate hypofractionation; - Prof.
Roberto Orecchia , Chair of Radiation Therapy,University of Milan and Scientific Director at theEuropean Institute of Oncology (IEO),Milan, Italy , will share his team's experience using the TomoTherapy System to treat all breast cases.
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