“Our partnership with Hygeia validates the pressing need for personalized medicine in radiation oncology”, said RTsafe’s CEO, Dr. Evangelos Pappas. “We’re thrilled that such a highly-regarded hospital has adopted RTsafe’s solution in an effort to provide the most advanced technology available for ensuring patient safety in radiotherapy and radiosurgery.”

RTsafe’s Personalized PseudoPatient™ is the world’s first personalized pre-treatment simulation system for quality assurance in radiation oncology. At the heart of the concept is an anatomically authentic head phantom of individual patients suffering from brain tumors. Using each patient’s anonymized CT scan, and deploying highly accurate medical grade 3D-printing technology and the latest dosimetry methodologies, RTsafe can create a patient-specific phantom which reacts to radiation in the exact same way that human tissue does. It is a perfect replica of the real patient’s head and bone structure, both externally and internally. RTsafe’s technology currently has a granted patent by the European Patent Office and published patent applications in several other countries globally.


Given the critical importance of accuracy in brain radiotherapy, Hygeia’s patients can now be reassured that their own treatment can be simulated and verified in a totally safe environment before they are exposed to radiation. The hospital has already used RTsafe’s technology to verify the radiation treatment of a number of pediatric and adult patients.


About RTsafe
RTsafe is a medical technology company that has developed a unique approach to quality assurance that significantly enhances the safety and accuracy of radiotherapy for cancer and other medical conditions. It combines proven expertise in medical physics with highly accurate 3D printing technology to create pseudo‐in‐vivo dosimetry phantoms towards End‐to‐End commissioning, benchmarking and patient‐specific quality assurance in SRS, IMRT, VMAT and SBRT applications. The anatomically accurate effigies enable medical professionals to plan more precise treatment interventions for each individual patient and help radiotherapy technology innovators to fine‐tune their products. The result is more effective individualized therapy and reduced patient risk. For more information, visit www.rt-safe.com.

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