April 18, 2017 -- C-RAD and Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida announced today that both parties have signed an agreement to equip the new proton therapy facility in Miami with C-RAD's surface tracking solution. C-RAD will install its Catalyst™ products in the IBA Proteus® PLUS gantry rooms. Additionally, the customer decided for C-RAD's Sentinel 4DCT™ system.
Miami Cancer Institute expects to be the primary destination for cancer patients in the southeastern United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. The center provides all cancer services under one roof. Besides the proton facility, Miami Cancer Institute hosts other front-line treatment modalities from Accuray, Elekta, Varian and ViewRay. The customer has chosen C-RAD’s SIGRT (Surface Image Guided Radiation Therapy) solution to optimize patient safety before and during treatment. Due to the precision of proton therapy in delivering radiation dose to the tumor, a high level of accuracy is required for patient positioning before and during treatment.
The Catalyst™ system will be delivered with the complete software suite with modules for Respiratory Gating, Patient Setup and Positioning and Motion Monitoring. The C-RAD SIGRT solution provides a continuous monitoring of the patient during a treatment fraction. Patient motion above a clinically defined threshold will interrupt the treatment beam.
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C-RAD provides interfaces to seamlessly integrate its products into the workflow. In April 2015, C-RAD validated its respiratory gating interface for IBA proton and particle therapy. It is the intention to cooperate with Miami Cancer Institute to develop a dedicated clinical workflow for proton therapy.
C-RAD Sentinel 4DCT is an easy-to-use, laser-based optical surface scanning system with functionality for 4D CT reconstruction and gated imaging in a CT room. It also provides reference images for patient positioning.
Alonso N. Gutierrez, PhD, MBA, Chief of Medical Physics, from Miami Cancer Institute says:
“We are excited to welcome this technology to our state-of-the-art proton center. Using the Catalyst HD system, we believe we will be able to improve our initial patient set up, monitor any patient motion during beam-on and gate the proton beam in an efficient manner to facilitate patient throughput.”
“We are honored to work with the team from Miami Cancer Institute on this prestigious project. It is our intention to build-up this site as an international reference site in the proton therapy landscape.” says Tim Thurn, CEO and President of C-RAD AB, “The overall development within radiation therapy is encouraging for C-RAD. The demand for accurate patient positioning is continuously increasing, and I am confident that C-RAD will contribute to help cure more cancer patients with our cutting-edge solutions and as being a trusted partner to our customers.”
