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What is TomoTherapy® Hi•Art® treatment system?

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"Referring physicians need to know TomoTherapy provides a unique platform from other technologies that is revolutionary, allowing us to treat patients who were previously untreatable and allowing us to move to the next level of care - adaptive radiotherapy”
D. Wayne Jenkins, M.D.
Medical Director, Vice President for Medical Affairs
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Orlando Florida
 “During the whole time I was receiving Tomo treatments, I never missed work. Never had a side effect. I drove 100 miles to the clinic every day and came back to work…I never missed my Sunday golf!”
Laurens Pierce, Prostate Cancer Survivor

What is TomoTherapy Hi-Art ?
• Revolutionary
• A Simplified Treatment Process
• The Image Advantage
• Unparalleled Precision

Revolutionary
The Hi•Art treatment system was designed in the 1990s as a machine free of historical constraints – one that could make full use of recent key advances in computing, diagnostic imaging and treatment delivery technologies. The TomoTherapy system is the leading technology for delivering image-guided radiotherapy.

A Simplified Treatment Process
The Hi•Art treatment system is the all-in-one solution, incorporating software for treatment planning, quality assurance, patient setup and treatment delivery.

The Image Advantage
The Hi•Art treatment system looks like a CT scanner because
it is a CT scanner allowing clinicians to efficiently acquire 3D
CTrue images of every patient, every day and check the size, shape and location of tumors before each treatment. These daily images are used to analyze—and, if necessary, modify—a patient’s treatment at any point during the treatment course.

Unparalleled precision
Conventional radiation therapy machines deliver a wide beam of radiation from only a few angles. The Hi•Art treatment system uses its unique CT scanner design to deliver radiation continuously from all angles around the patient. More angles and more precise modulation result in dose distributions that conform to tumors like never before. This, in turn, minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue, reducing side effects.

To find our more about TomoTherapy visit http://www.tomotherapy.com/.

What to expect in the TomoTherapy treatment process

Step One: Planning
• Before beginning a TomoTherapy treatment, the doctor puts together a plan using 3D images from a combination of scanning technologies and special software to establish the precise contours for each tumor and surrounding sensitive organs or tissues.
• The doctor then prescribes how much radiation the tumor should receive, as well as acceptable levels for healthy tissue nearby.
• The Hi•Art treatment system calculates the appropriate pattern, position and intensity of the radiation beams to be delivered, based on the doctors prescribed dose.
• A typical course of radiation therapy involves a daily process, Monday through Friday.

Step Two: Treatment
• Radiation therapist will help you onto the Hi•Art system’s couch. The couch was designed to offer optimum comfort and ease of adjustability during treatment.
• The couch will move the patient through the machine once for daily CTrue imaging.
• Based on these images, the therapist may fine tune the patient’s position via small couch adjustments.
• The couch will move the patient through the machine once again, this time more slowly, as the Hi•Art system delivers the daily treatment. A clicking noise and the hum of the machine may be heard, both of which are normal sounds.
• Treatment takes about 20 minutes. This includes about five minutes for the daily CT and another five minutes for treatment to be delivered (“beam-on time”). The remaining time is used for patient set-up and image registration for proper positioning.
    

"I developed a strong understanding of my options, then I started asking other people in the medical industry, 'Would you go five minutes away for conventional IMRT or an hour away for TomoTherapy?' The answer was a resounding 'yes,' go for TomoTherapy."

Mike Schafer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma Survivor

TomoTherapy Facts


TomoTherapy Facts
TomoTherapy can treat tumors of all shapes and sizes along with multiple tumors (metastases) and multiple regions of the body. The dosage delivered can vary depending on the location and the size of the tumor. Another advantage of TomoTherapy is that the integrated process can continuously be adapted and adjusted to ensure that the patient is always receiving the proper dosages of radiation. Being extremely targeted, TomoTherapy can treat specific areas while leaving the surrounding healthy tissue untouched. It can, for example, treat the throat while the salivary glands are left untouched.


Below are just a few featured treatment sites
• Ideal for prostate cancer treatment
• Has the flexibility to treat early-stage lung cancer
• Provides pinpoint accuracy in the complex head and neck region
• Capable of treating previously untreatable cancers

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