Professor Carole Longson, director of health technology evaluation at Nice, said: "With the Intrabeam Radiotherapy System only one dose is required.
Purpose: To develop and evaluate a new four-dimensional image-guided radiotherapy system, which enables precise setup, real-time tumor tracking, and pursuit irradiation.
The CyberKnife is a frameless image-guided radiotherapy system.
Tomotherapy is a new radiotherapy system that uses an integrated computed tomography scanner to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy treatment.
On the other hand, the average Euclidean distance of tumor errors in the lung screening phantom was 4.84 ± 1.45 mm, which was measured by using an image guided patient positioning (IGPP) system in the radiotherapy system used for this study.
Although not specifically adressed in this report, we may expect the use of embolisation coils for marking lung tumours to be of benefit for every radiotherapy system using image guidance to detect markers in order to improve the target localisation.
The co-registration of MRI and CT images with radiotherapy planning systems is the subject of ongoing research.
This software could be easily implemented and was easy to use for image processing suitable for radiotherapy planning systems.
In radiotherapy planning systems, normally the computed tomography (CT) slices are kept as a standard upon which other modality images (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], single photon emission computed tomography [SPECT], positron emission tomography [PET], etc).
