Cyberknife VSI Tracking Systems
By tracking the tumor continually throughout the treatment, the CyberKnife System is the only system that truly adapts to the motion characteristics of the patient.
Synchrony® Respiratory Tracking System
Continuously synchronizes beam delivery to the motion of the tumor, allowing clinicians to significantly reduce margins while eliminating the need for gating or breath-holding techniques.
The Synchrony System will allow physicians, for the first time, to treat their patients with much tighter margins, no longer having to add significant margins to compensate for a moving target, thus sparing more healthy tissue.
Synchrony uses a complex system of cameras, motion tracking software, fiber optic sensing technology, infrared emitters and a special formfitting, highly elastic patient garment to do its job. In conjunction with CyberKnife, the system identifies, updates and then correlates external body surface movement with movement of the internal tumor fiducials.
Throughout the procedure, Synchrony is monitoring the target and readjusting its calibrations to assure that it is locked on the tumor. The result is that physicians know exactly where the tumor is in real time, and can use maximum radiation without fear of harming surrounding healthy tissues.
- Dynamically tracks all targets that move with respiration
- Improves accuracy of radiation delivery
- Minimizes irradiation of healthy tissue or critical structures
- Treats complex targets
- Eliminates painful breath-holding
- Eliminates complex gating techniques
- Decreases treatment times
- Simpler, more streamlined procedures
The Synchrony System simultaneously tracks both movement of the tumor and breathing patterns of the patient. The robotic arm adjusts and compensates for these movements ensuring more accurate treatment and eliminating breath-holding or gating requirements. A recent multi-center study reported targeting centroid accuracy better than 1.5mm, expanding accurate radiosurgery treatment to all tumors that move with respiration such as lung, pancreas, liver, kidney or other abdominal or thoracic tumors.
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Lung Optimized Treatment
Offers the optimal accuracy and steep dose fall off required to safely treat lung tumors, even those close to critical structures (such as central or chest wall tumors). Simulation and comparison workflows, combined with unique tracking modes, allow the clinician to select from multiple, non-invasive options.
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Xsight® Lung Tracking System
Directly tracks the movement of lung tumors without fiducials while maintaining precision, reliability and self-adjusting repeatability.*
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Xsight Spine Tracking System
Eliminates the need for surgical implantation of fiducials by using the bony anatomy of the spine to automatically locate and track tumors, making radiosurgery more precise and less invasive.
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InTempo™ Adaptive Imaging System
Intelligent, adaptive imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges of prostate tracking resulting from random and excessive target motion.
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6D Skull Tracking
Rendering invasive stereotactic head-frames obsolete, 6D Skull Tracking uses bony anatomy to continually track intracranial targets and automatically correct for even the slightest translational or rotational shift that might occur during treatment delivery.
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