Vienna General Hospital/Medical University of Vienna, the largest medical university campus and hospital in Austria, has selected RayStation® as its sole treatment planning system for external beam therapy and brachytherapy. RayStation will replace and consolidate existing treatment planning systems at the center. The first patient treatments using RayStation are expected to take place early in 2020.
The Department of Radiation Oncology is equipped with five Elekta linacs and four brachytherapy machines. It treats over 2500 patients per year, including 400 brachytherapy applications. The department has an international reputation for high-precision and image-guided radiation therapy, as well as MR-guided adaptive brachytherapy.
The RayStation order will include clinical and research licenses. Functionality on the research side will also include proton and carbon ion therapy, as the department has a close collaboration with MedAustron. MedAustron is a leading Austrian center specializing in ion therapy and research and was the first RayStation customer for carbon ion therapy treatment planning.
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Univ. Prof. Dr. Joachim Widder, Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology, AKH Vienna/Medical University of Vienna, says: “RayStation will allow us, for the first time in the department’s history, to cover the whole range of our treatments. It will also pave the way for future research in precision radiation oncology, which requires coverage of all external beam therapy options, from electron treatments to advanced intensity-modulated and image-guided photon techniques. As a special challenge, MR-guided brachytherapy will soon be fully implemented. RayStation’s proton and carbon ion treatment planning functionalities will facilitate research and combined treatments for a selection of patients we treat in cooperation with MedAustron, and excellent image handling and automation capabilities make it the ideal platform to improve workflow efficiency and realize our aim of further developing adaptive radiotherapy.”
Johan Löf, CEO of RaySearch, says: “We are pleased that AKH Vienna/Medical University of Vienna, Austria’s largest medical university campus, has chosen to consolidate its existing systems and selected RayStation as the treatment planning platform for all treatment modalities. This is very much in line with our aim of harmonizing treatment planning and supporting as many treatment machines as possible. I look forward to supporting AKH in its cutting-edge research and clinical practice.”
