| Immobilisation Newsletter June 2010 | Newsletter Available for DownloadThe June issue of 'What's Hot in Immobilisation' Newsletter is now available for download. |
The newsletter contains product news, a guide to pulling the perfect thermoplastic mask, and features on Clatterbridge, Torbay and CancerPartnersUK. To download the newsletter please click  What's Hot in Immobilisation June 2010 (1.56 MB) | TomoTherapy News June 2010 | Simon Callow Opens Second TomoTherapy Machine at Addenbrooke's Addenbrooke’s second TomoTherapy machine was officially opened on 25th June 2010, by actor and writer Simon Callow. |
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Prolific author and performer appearing in international films such as Amadeus and Four Wedding and a Funeral, Mr Callow raised a laugh describing how he had played the part of an oncologist in Los Angeles, who was diagnosed with cancer, then cured, but then the series was axed! A beautiful glass stone with an engraved TomoTherapy machine was presented as a gift by Carl Pavey, MD of OSL. As routine, Addenbrooke’s now treat 65 patients a day on their two TomoTherapy machines, averaging 3.8 patients per hour, an amazing achievement considering that each delivery is complex IMRT including all head and neck cases, and that every patient is CT image-guided and adapted daily prior to exposure. Proof that the highest quality, need not equate to low throughput! Well done to the Addenbrooke’s team!
| ImSim News March 2010 | ImSimQA invaluable to physics QA on both sides of the Atlantic Medical physicists, 3,000 miles apart are using ImSimQA both for routine clinical system testing and for exciting research.Nicky Whilde of Northampton, England, and Raj Varadhan of Minneapolis, USA are using a unique new concept for testing their radiation therapy systems. |
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ImSim’s virtual phantom software, is opening up a new spectrum of testing capability, not possible with hard phantoms. IGRT and RT planning software is being validated, imaging protocols are being systematically derived, and new deformable image registration algorithms are being scientifically tested using an extensive library of virtual phantoms. Additional 4D and Deform modules creating 4D DICOM image series, and deformation of CT,MR, PET, CBCT, MVCT DICOM images, provide an infinite, yet systematic approach to testing new clinical systems and algorithms.
To download the ImSim brochure please click Virtual Phantoms for Real QA (2.38 MB) | | OSL Introduces Gold Anchor | NEW Gold Anchor OSL are proud to introduce Gold Anchor into our product range. Ultrafine needle - less trauma, further reach Offering the benefits of superior reach to inner organs and more reliable localisation over time. Regular gold marker needle dia 1.47mm (top) Gold Anchor marker needle dia 0.53 (bottom) |
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Visible under X-ray and CT, CBCT & MVCT. When inserted the gold wire collapses and folds providing superior anchorage and reduces migration. Smaller needles (0.53mm dia) help minimise infection. Available as 10mm or 20mm markers in two different needle sizes. For more information please visit the product page where you will be able to download the product literature. | NEW ProSoma RT PACS | NEW ProSoma RT PACSProSoma PACS has been developed specifically for radiotherapy image management, to centrally archive, and then easily retrieve back all RT images and RT plans from any RT system. ProSoma PACS provides a cost effective upgrade path for existing ProSoma users, and also to non ProSoma users. |
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| TomoTherapy News 2010 | TomoTherapy at James Cook Hospital 'accepted' for treatment in 3 weeks! Saturday 20th February saw the arrival of TomoTherapy Hi-Art® to its new home in Middlesbrough. Within 6 days, radiation beam on was achieved, and the system was officially accepted and handed over on Saturday 13th March. Well done to JCUH physics and the TomoTherapy installation team! |
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| | ProSoma User Meeting 2010 | Save the Date After far too long, we are now planning our next ProSoma UK - Ireland User Meeting, which is provisionally booked for Friday 3rd to Saturday 4th December, in Birmingham. This is your chance to let us know what new or improved functions you would like to see in the software, as well as suggest the topics to cover that you would find valuable in the user meeting. |
The ProSoma User Meeting is being co-hosted by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Look out for your invitation. | NEW ProSoma RT Viewer | NEW ProSoma RT Viewer - RT images and information from anywhere!| RT Viewer provides a clinical review station for rapid viewing of RT images and data from many locations, in a familiar RT-friendly environment. Julie Mead, Clinical Advisor at OSL comments, “We see RT Viewer as a great option for rapid access to RT plans and images, from peripheral clinics or clinician’s offices. Plans can even be electronically approved from a remote location." |
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| ImSimQA Testimonial | What a Northampton physicist says about ImSimQA
“As with most departments, there is a distinct lack of time available on MR/PET scanners. With ImSimQA we were able to assess the advantages and limitations of each (image fusion) system in a controlled and methodical way... |
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We have also been able to use it for departmental development e.g. the advancement of breast planning…We look forward to using it to commission respiratory gating, CT-PET fusion and other new developments”. Nicky Whilde Principal Physicist Northampton General Hospital ImSimQA has been in use at Northampton General Hospital for 3 years now. It has been an incredibly useful tool with many applications. We originally procured it because we had acquired new Virtual Simulation software, and needed a way of commissioning and comparing the two image fusion packages we now had available. As with most departments, there is a distinct lack of time available on MR / PET scanner; and ImSimQA seemed an inspired idea! We were able to assess the advantages and limitations of each system in a controlled and methodical way; for each algorithm provided by the two systems. Following software upgrades we were able to easily re-test the planning systems. Additional uses have been in training staff in the image fusion packages; and setting new scanning protocols in the diagnostic department to improve the chances of a successful fusion of images. We have also been able to use it for other departmental development. For example, the advancement of breast planning, by showing the effect on a treatment plan of putting patients on lower wedge angles on breast boards. ImSimQA is such an exceptionally valuable tool. We could not have implemented image fusion at NGH without it; and there have also been unforeseen advantages as shown above. We look forward to using it to commission respiratory gating, CT-PET fusion and other new developments in the future – all of which will be a lot less time consuming via ImSimQA. |
