issue 14
The Beamlet
In this issue:
- Introducing StatRT™
- Speaker schedule for the TomoTherapy booth (#629)
- A list of Tomo® -focused papers to be presented at AAPM
StatRT: A new standard of care for time-critical cases
TomoTherapy Incorporated is pleased to announce the launch of StatRT, a new software application for the Hi·Art® treatment system. StatRT will be introduced at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), held this weekend in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
StatRT leverages the Hi·Art system’s fully-integrated design for the effective, palliative care of patients—and for a rapid start to fractionated image-guided, intensity-modulated (IG/IMRT) treatment plans.
With StatRT, TomoTherapy users can quickly and easily manage the full treatment process—imaging, planning and treatment delivery—from a single workstation.
The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre in Ontario, Canada served as a pilot site for StatRT software. According to the Centre’s Senior Medical Physicist, Miller MacPherson, PhD, “We have found that the dose distributions from StatRT are much more conformal than our traditional palliative techniques.”
“Beyond dose distributions,” Dr. MacPherson adds, “being able to image, plan and treat patients in a single appointment offers a much more convenient and comfortable experience for our patients than before.”
Miller MacPherson, PhD, will discuss StatRT in the TomoTherapy AAPM booth on Tuesday morning. See below for exact times and for additional Tomo user presentations.
TomoTherapy booth presentations, day-by-day
- Sunday – Tuesday
- Every hour on the hour • TomoTherapy® Hi·Art® Treatment System Overview
- TomoTherapy Inc. Clinical Applications Staff
- Sunday
- 1:30 – 2:00 • TomoTherapy for Cranial Radiosurgery/Radiotherapy
- Tewfik J. Bichay, PhD, Director of Physics, The Lacks Cancer Center at Saint Mary’s, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- 2:30 – 3:00 • Exploring the Limits of a Tomo-only Site
- Jeff Limmer, MS, Chief Medical Physicist, UW Cancer Centers: Wausau and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
- Monday
- 10:30 – 11:00 • TomoTherapy: The Karmanos Cancer Institute Experience
- Jay Burmeister, PhD, Medical Physicist & Director, Medical Physics Graduate Programs, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan/Wayne State University School of Medicine
- 11:30 – 12:00 • Bringing TomoTherapy Live in the Community Hospital Setting
- Hui Li, PhD, Chief Medical Physicist, Hall Radiation Center, Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- 1:30 – 2:00 • Implementation of Machine and Patient QA for a New TomoTherapy Site
- Niko Papanikolaou, PhD, Professor and Director of Medical Physics, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, San Antonio, Texas
- 2:30 – 3:00 • Validate and Treat (Not Just Prostates)
- Brent D. Murphy, MS, DABR, Senior Medical Physicist, Goshen Health System, Center for Cancer Care, Goshen, Indiana
- Tuesday
- 11:30 – 12:00 • Complex Rapid Palliation with TomoTherapy
- Miller MacPherson, PhD, Senior Medical Physicist, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
- 1:30 – 2:00 • TomoTherapy for Superficial Tumors
- John Gibbons, Jr., PhD, Chief of Clinical Physics, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
70+ papers on TomoTherapy
set for presentation at AAPM 2007
Download a comprehensive list.
(PDF format; also includes booth schedule above.)
