Varian® offers you a wide range of imaging, planning, and treatment options to suit each patient’s needs. Our flexible, feature-rich technologies enable you to customize treatment to suit any of the clinical circumstances you may encounter.
The innovative RapidArc radiotherapy technology on a Clinac® linear accelerator represents the latest evolution of cancer treatment technology, setting new benchmarks for speed, precision and patient comfort.
RapidArc uses a unique algorithm that provides unprecedented treatment delivery control. As a result, treatment plans that excel in covering target goals while sparing critical structures can be developed and performed faster than ever before.
RapidArc is efficient. Its single gantry rotation speeds treatment delivery so clinicians can develop treatments that take one-half to one-eighth the time of conventional IMRT treatments—just two minutes in many cases. A RapidArc treatment may also result in less radiation leakage and scatter, so peripheral tissues receive a lower overall dose.
While intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a way of conforming dose to the target, Dynamic Targeting image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) makes it possible to account for respiration and ensure that the target is in the same position every day.
With Dynamic Targeting IGRT, innovative radiographic, and fluoroscopic and cone-beam CT modes are integrated with automated repositioning and motion management visualization software, so you can verify treatments that are synchronized with respiration.
IGRT allows you to obtain high resolution, three-dimensional images to pinpoint tumor sites, adjust patient positioning when necessary, and complete a treatment—all within the standard treatment time slot. With Dynamic targeting IGRT, even sophisticated IMRT and stereotactic IMRT become more efficient.
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is rapidly becoming the standard of care. Not all tumors are alike. SmartBeam™ IMRT optimizes all forms of IMRT delivery, from low resolution to high resolution. Varian SmartBeam IMRT enables clinicians to choose the resolution required for each clinical situation.
SmartBeam IMRT "paints" a dose to the tumor with pinpoint precision, while sparing healthy normal tissue. Its performance has been so impressive that clinicians around the world are using it in treatment for nearly every type of solid tumor. An increasing number of clinics have begun treating patients with SmartBeam IMRT and nearly every new linear accelerator ordered from Varian® is equipped to deliver IMRT.
In short, IMRT has proven to be a remarkable effective way to treat cancer and improve patients’ lives during treatment and beyond.
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