Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, this week launched Vitesse 2.0, a new ultrasound-guided brachytherapy treatment planning system.
Vitesse 2.0 enables clinicians to develop treatment plans that show the locations of radiation sources and dose distribution. It uses ultrasound images generated in the operating room rather than requiring clinicians to move the patient to another room with a CT scanner for x-ray images, according to the company.
The product enables clinicians to complete two brachytherapy procedures a day on a patient, rather than forcing longer hospital stays by spreading treatments over as many as three days, the company said.
Clinicians can plan needle locations, monitor and adjust the positions as the needles are inserted, identify the final needle position in the patient, and export the entire dataset to Varian's BrachyVision 3D planning system. The plan for the high-dose-rate prostate procedure can then be completed and the patient treated.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
April 3, 2006
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