Varian BrachyTherapy will be highlighting further integration between the company's family of afterloader systems and the ARIA oncology information suite, focusing on the system's dose tracking capability, as well as displaying the company's fast and flexible brachytherapy treatment planning systems BrachyVision™, VariSeed™ and Vitesse™.
The Varian booth is also spotlighting the company's ProBeam™* proton therapy system which is being installed in new proton therapy clinics globally. The ProBeam system incorporates pencil-beam scanning technology, which optimizes the dose applied to every point within the area being treated. Several new ProBeam features will be demonstrated in the Varian booth, including a new user interface, a more compact robotic patient positioner and advanced imaging capabilities for precise patient setup verification and correction utilizing planar kV imaging and 3-D cone-beam CT imaging.
Ad Statistics
Times Displayed: 112971
Times Visited: 6732 MIT labs, experts in Multi-Vendor component level repair of: MRI Coils, RF amplifiers, Gradient Amplifiers Contrast Media Injectors. System repairs, sub-assembly repairs, component level repairs, refurbish/calibrate. info@mitlabsusa.com/+1 (305) 470-8013
Oncology Summit
The show kicks off with a Varian Oncology Summit held at nearby Uptown Geneva on Friday April 19th, attracting more than 400 oncology professionals. Held in combination with Siemens Healthcare, this educational event will feature up to thirty scientific talks from physicists, clinicians and other healthcare professionals, examining advances in radiotherapy and radiosurgery.
Symposium
A Varian symposium will take place on Sunday April 21st, focusing on the next steps in stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR), a type of radiosurgery used for indications like lung and liver cancer. This event features presentations on the clinical implementation of Varian's Calypso tumor-tracking technology at Washington University in St. Louis, U.S., advanced SABR treatments for lung cancer at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and applications of Knowledge-Based Contouring at the MAASTRO Clinic in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The symposium will be chaired by Dr. Marta Scorsetti from Humanitas Clinic in Milan, Italy.
*CE mark and international registrations pending for EDGE Radiosurgery and ProBeam. Not available for sale in all markets.
Editorial contact: Neil Madle, Varian Medical Systems, +44 7786 526068
About Varian Medical Systems
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California, is the world's leading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer and other medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managing comprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncology practices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes, digital detectors, and image processing workstations for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and also supplies high-energy X-ray devices for cargo screening and non-destructive testing applications. Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 6,200 people who are located at manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and China and approximately 70 sales and support offices around the world. For more information, visit http://www.varian.com or follow us on Twitter.
Back to HCB News
