Philips Healthcare is showcasing new products and technologies at this year's American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting, being held in Miami Beach, FL, this week.
New offerings from the company's Brilliance CT Big Bore will address image degradation caused by artifacts and motion through improved acquisition and postprocessing. The company is also touting new clinical results from the latest Brilliance CT Big Bore enhancements, including improved CT image quality with metal artifact reduction for orthopedic implants (O-MAR). The O-MAR software isolates and reduces the effects of large metal objects that can obscure anatomical structures that need to be identified and contoured as part of the treatment planning workflow.
The new Pinnacle3 Professional treatment planning workstation is designed to offer enhanced accessibility and reliability and is specifically aimed at midsized cancer treatment centers. This new software version of the Pinnacle3 platform enables remote access from any location for radiation therapy treatment planning.
Philips is also showcasing SmartArc with constant dose rate technology, which enables fast treatments without volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) upgrades, as well as the company's Gemini TF Big Bore PET/CT, which is now equipped with its Astonish TF 4D time-of-flight algorithm.
