Your need for accuracy and efficiency are reflected in the Philips products on display at ASTRO.
From detection through treatment and surveillance, thoroughly understanding all stages of a cancer patient’s experience in the healthcare system is the basis of our oncology solutions.
Clinical needs of the patient and caregiver generate the insights for our integrated image-guided treatment planning solutions. Using this approach we can help you select the most appropriate tools for diagnosis and treatment, designed to improve cost-effectiveness, access and quality of care. It’s an innovative approach to cancer care and one that customers and patients embrace.
Read on for more on these Philips ASTRO highlights:
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New features on Brilliance CT Big Bore
Introducing the Brilliance CT Big Bore image quality and enhancement package! Exclusive features include a new binning process to compensate for uneven patient breathing patterns, metal artifact reduction that improves visualization of critical structures and simulation-tools on the console that match treatment devices to save time and enhance the patient marking process. All new features to be introduced at ASTRO were designed with feedback from Philips users. Visit the Philips booth to see what’s new in Big Bore CT.
Learn more about our CT Big Bore
Introducing Ambient Experience for oncology
At the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California, Irvine Medical Center (see above photo), the new Ambient Experience room incorporates specialized design approaches from Philips. Creating positive distraction and minimizing clutter can help to foster a calmer environment for the patient and a more efficient workspace for clinicians. The room’s Brilliance CT Big Bore incorporates an 85cm large bore and 60cm true scan field of view, making this configuration ideal for oncology where patient positioning and accuracy are especially critical.
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Philips SmartArc with VMAT technology is here
Pinnacle³ version 9 with SmartArc will be commercially released in November 2009. SmartArc uses VMAT technology to generate plans with reduced treatment delivery times. Innovative SmartArc is vendor neutral, working with the major linac vendors to integrate seamlessly into your department.
Its ability to support adaptive treatment plans for optimal individualized therapy makes Pinnacle³ one of the leading treatment planning systems on the market. Our SmartArc advanced treatment planning reduces your treatment time without the need for a linear accelerator upgrade.
Pre-schedule a SmartArc demonstration by contacting Philips at ASTRO.
Learn more about SmartArc
Read SmartArc press release
Pinnacle3 SmartEnterprise
Boost your capacity for radiation therapy planning with centralized processing and remote thin client access. Already at work in prestigious cancer centers, this flexible, cost-effective, and fully scalable desktop solution allows up to 16 simultaneous Pinnacle³ users per computing module.
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GEMINI TF Big Bore PET/CT now in clinical use
The only PET/CT system built with a CT simulator, AAPM TG-66 positional accuracy, an 85cm wide bore, and workflow optimization for oncology care, the GEMINI TF Big Bore PET/CT system supports growing clinical evidence of the value of integrating PET biological information into radiation treatment planning. Philips 4D TOF technology integrates a comprehensive respiratory correlated imaging package with tumor localization and Time-of-Flight PET imaging. Now with Generation 3 TOF, the GEMINI TF Big Bore is in clinical use throughout the world.
Learn more about our big bore PET/CT
MRI-enabled guidance
While you're at the Philips booth, be sure to see a model of our Panorama HFO high field open MR system.
MRI can help you visualize the presence and extent of disease with outstanding anatomic detail. It helps to define tumor boundaries, as you delineate target tissue from healthy surrounding tissue. And it provides functional information without contrast agents, radiation or radioactive isotopes. In the complete Philips MR portfolio, Panorama HFO is optimized for interventional therapies. Now, you can offer your patients MRI-enabled guidance as well as diagnosis.
Learn more about our high-field open MRI
MRI in oncology
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