- Overview
- Treatment Techniques
- Planning Technology
- Hardware Specifications
- Benefits of Eclipse
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- Treatment Techniques
- Radiation Oncology
- Brachytherapy
- Radiosurgery
- Proton Therapy
- Motion Management
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Eclipse | Treatment Techniques
Eclipse is a comprehensive solution for treatment planning that allows clinicians to quickly customize treatment plans for any disease site with precision and accuracy.
Designed for flexibility and feature-rich efficiency, Eclipse simplifies advanced treatment techniques, enabling growing clinics to offer improved patient care and services.
RapidArc™ Radiotherapy Technology
RapidArc™ radiotherapy technology integrates seamlessly with Eclipse to enable clinicians to develop IMRT-quality treatments with a single arc—even for complex treatments.
By combining the power of Eclipse planning tools with the precision and speed of RapidArc, clinicians can develop highly individualized treatments that:
- take one-half to one-eighth the time of similar treatment on other RT platforms - just two minutes in many cases.
- establish an entirely new benchmark for treatment speed and patient comfort
- excel in covering target goals while sparing critical structures
Interactive IMRT Planning
Powerful 3D conformal planning tools in Eclipse are combined with interactive dose-volume optimization for fast, flexible, and accurate intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning. Automatic optimization of beam geometry simplifies the task of selecting the best beam angles for IMRT.
Clinicians can make real-time decisions using the interactive IMRT features in Eclipse. With thousands of patients at hundreds of institutions worldwide successfully treated with IMRT plans generated by Eclipse, it is an established solution for IMRT planning.
- Rapid IMRT Plan Setup
- Clinical Flexibility
- Interactive Optimization
- Accurate Dose Calculation
- Beam Angle Optimization
IGRT
Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) allows the user to track changes in patients during the course of treatment. For example, treating a head and neck tumor in the Varian® Inspiration™ environment, the clinician can use integrated Cone-Beam CT (CBCT) planning and fast calculation in Eclipse, to facilitate adaptive therapy (e.g. Dynamic Adaptive Radiation Therapy (DART™)).
4D Planning (Optional)
The Eclipse™ Treatment Planning System's 4D functionality includes contouring and field set up, which is as fast and efficient as in 3D planning, with the added benefit of 4D visualization throughout the planning process. Eclipse displays the motion of targets and critical structures using specially designed 4D tools.
With this visual information, the clinician can easily design 3D conformal and IMRT treatments using images that are either retrospectively binned according to the Real-time Position Management™ (RPM) system signal or prospectively acquired using RPM gated imaging. For retrospective 4D images, Eclipse automatically registers phase-or amplitude-binned image series together with any corresponding derived image series such as MIP, Min-IP, Average-IP or Free Breathing images.
The clinician can view and assess the motion by displaying the 4D image series as movie loops and as blended or "blinking" images. The 4D image display accommodates CT, PET/CT, PET, MR and Cone-Beam CT from the On-Board Imager®. The 4D images are displayed in 2D, 3D, and digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) views. Doses for gated treatments are readily visualized in Eclipse.
Adaptive Therapy
Dynamic Adaptive Radiation Therapy (DART) is an exciting, new, emerging capability that has the potential to improve clinical outcomes with relatively little effect on the current level of clinical productivity. In Varian's integrated oncology environment, all parameters required for patient treatment are immediately available to the electronic medical record and treatment delivery systems without importing or exporting. Eclipse can reconstruct dose distributions based upon CBCT images and actual treatment parameters for DART.
Proton Treatment
Eclipse Proton Planning combines the latest in fast, accurate proton calculation algorithms with the power of the Eclipse treatment planning system to create a single system for proton, photon, electron, and brachytherapy planning. Proton plans can be combined and compared with other modalities, or used as the base dose for a boost.
Eclipse supports a variety of proton beam lines as well as ocular planning. Clinicians use automated proton planning tools to easily take advantage of the unique physics of protons to reduce healthy tissue damage.
- State-of-the-Art Algorithms
- Powerful Contouring Tools
- Automatic Field Setup
- Multi-Modality Imaging
- Open System
- Integrated Environment
- Ocular Proton Planning
Brachytherapy
The combination of the BrachyVision™ 3D treatment planning system with the VariSource™ 200 HDR afterloader and GammaMedPlus™ HDR/PDR afterloader establishes Varian as a leader in brachytherapy.
BrachyVision works as a standalone brachytherapy planning system or as part of an Eclipse treatment planning system. For those customers who wish to perform film-based brachytherapy planning, Eclipse includes BrachyVision 2D. BrachyVision 3D is available as an option for Eclipse users who require image-guided 3D brachytherapy planning.
- Film-based Brachytherapy Planning
- Supported Sources and Techniques
- Flexible Plan Normalization
- Plan Analysis
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