CMS, Inc., an Elekta Company, Announces First Cancer Patients Treated with Monaco(TM) Radiation Treatment Planning System.ST LOUIS, Miss. -- Regulatory News: CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. , Inc., an Elekta (STO:EKTAB) Company and worldwide leader in radiation treatment planning In radiotherapy, Treatment Planning is the process in which a team consisting of radiation oncologists, medical radiation physicists and dosimetrists plan the appropriate external beam radiotherapy treatment technique for a patient with cancer. Typically, medical imaging (i.e. and workflow management solutions, announced that three sites have delivered clinical treatments utilizing Monaco[TM], its next-generation Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT IMRT Intensity-modulated radiation therapy Radiation oncology A format for delivering high-dose RT to regions–eg, nasopharynx, that are surrounded by radiation-sensitive areas; in IMRT, a broad radiation field is divided into hundreds of small pencil beams, ) treatment planning system. Allegheny General Hospital Allegheny General Hospital is a large urban hospital located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Allegheny General Hospital, also commonly known locally by the acronym "AGH," was founded in 1885 in Pittsburgh's North Side, in the area formally known as Allegheny City. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Pittsburgh” redirects here. For the region, see Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. Pittsburgh (pronounced IPA: /ˈpɪtsbɚg/) is the second largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. , Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have all begun producing treatment plans with the application. Featuring biological modeling, constrained optimization, and Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms, Monaco represents a fundamentally new approach to IMRT planning, including a unique and sophisticated set of tools to make the radiotherapy planning process easier, more straightforward and clinically reliable. "The biologically-based Monaco IMRT treatment planning system produces clinically relevant plans, which are dosimetrically superior to plans from dose-based IMRT treatment planning systems, feature shorter plan delivery times, and can be easily verified with normal QA procedures," says Moyed Miften, Ph.D., DABR DABR Do A Barrel Roll (gaming) DABR Diagnostic, American Board of Radiology DABR Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology , and Allegheny General Hospital's Chief of Medical Physics. "The multi-criteria optimization and the sensitivity analysis tools in the Monaco system also help reduce the time needed to optimize IMRT plans." While IMRT delivers significant improvements for radiation treatment, the technology presents challenges, including managing the time and resource intensive processes associated with planning. With Monaco, CMS offers new approaches that improve IMRT planning in the following ways: Sensitivity Analysis tool that minimizes trial-and-error by guiding the decision making process Smart Sequencing[TM], a constrained aperture optimization that produces efficient step-and-shoot segments Biological models, voxel definition controls, and multi-criterial goals that provide more intuitive and direct control over the optimization process. Monaco was developed with the University of T@bingen in Germany. Markus Alber, Ph.D., and colleagues developed the Hyperion project, which is the engine behind the new Monaco system. CMS commercialized these innovative concepts and approaches from the Hyperion project to create the foundation for Monaco. The result is an advanced, clinically sophisticated IMRT planning system backed by the core research and capabilities of one of the world's leading research institutions. About CMS CMS, Inc., an Elekta Company, is a worldwide market leader in radiation treatment planning and workflow management, combining innovative software applications and advanced technology tools to deliver comprehensive treatment planning and workflow management solutions that integrate seamlessly in any clinical environment. With a commitment to product excellence and a reputation for world-class service and support, CMS makes all members of the treatment team more effective in providing patient care. About Elekta Elekta is an international medical technology group, providing oncologists, radiation therapists, neurosurgeons and many other medical specialists with state of the art tools to fight serious disease. Elekta provides advanced clinical solutions, comprehensive management and information systems as well as services for improved cancer care and management of brain disorders. Elekta's systems and solutions are used in over 5,000 hospitals around the world. Clinical and information management solutions include, among others, Leksell Gamma Knife Gamma Knife A trademark for a radiologic nonsurgical device used in stereotactic radiosurgery. Gamma knife A surgical tool that focuses beams of radiation at the head, which converge in the brain to form a lesion. [R] for non-invasive treatment of brain disorders, Elekta Axesse[TM] and Elekta Synergy[R] for stereotactic stereotactic /ster·eo·tac·tic/ (-tak´tik) 1. characterized by precise positioning in space; said especially of discrete areas of the brain that control specific functions. 2. pertaining to stereotactic surgery. and image guided radiation therapy and radiosurgery radiosurgery /ra·dio·sur·gery/ (-ser´jer-e) surgery in which tissue destruction is performed by means of ionizing radiation rather than by surgical incision. as well as the MOSAIQ[TM] suite of software for image-enabled EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. and efficient management of clinical and patient data. With around 2,500 employees globally, the corporate headquarter head·quar·ter v. head·quar·tered, head·quar·ter·ing, head·quar·ters Usage Problem v.tr. To provide with headquarters: is located in Stockholm, Sweden and the company is listed on the Nordic Exchange under the ticker EKTAb. More information about Elekta can be found at www.elekta.com. This information was brought to you by Cision http://newsroom.cision.com |
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