August 27, 2015 07:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time, STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: RaySearch Laboratories (STO:RAYB)

UF Health Proton Therapy Institute is a 98,000 square-foot radiation medical facility that houses conventional photon radiation therapy in addition to proton therapy. At full capacity, the facility can treat up to 150 patients per day with the most advanced technology available to treat and cure cancer. Since opening in 2006, some 6,000 patients have been treated, many of whom are pediatric patients from around the world seeking the long-term benefits of proton therapy. The selection of the RayStation® treatment planning system will support workflow needs of today and the advanced needs of Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS), also known as Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT).

Dr. Zuofeng Li, Physics Director and Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine said, “Our goal when searching for a treatment planning system for IMPT was to also identify a product that could be utilized for all of our planning needs. We found RayStation® to have superior planning tools for IMPT in terms of efficiency and quality of plans, as well as other new technologies that could help our photon planning teams. We believe features such as multi-criteria optimization (MCO), fallback planning, deformable registration and adaptive therapy will all have a significant impact on our daily planning workflow. All of this, combined with ultrafast calculation speed, made RayStation® the best choice for us.”
“The advanced technologies found within the RayStation® software are a perfect match for both the advanced and more traditional planning needs found at the UF Health Proton Therapy Institute,” says Marc Mlyn, President of RaySearch Americas, Inc. “RaySearch is committed to offering best-in-class technologies for all treatment modalities, including the most advanced IMPT. We are proud to cover the entire spectrum of planning needs at UF Health Proton Therapy Institute and welcome this new partnership.”

Johan Löf, CEO of RaySearch Laboratories AB comments, “We are very pleased to count UF Health Proton Therapy Institute as the 18th proton center to treat patients with RayStation®. It will be very interesting to observe the impact of RayStation® on the organization’s planning workflow, since it includes both conventional and advanced treatment techniques. We are looking forward to advancing cancer treatment together based on our unique and state-of-the-art technologies.”

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