TomoTherapy Inc. (TOMO), which sells advanced radiation therapy solutions to treat cancers, said a study to explore the benefits of its "Advanced TomoTherapy Delivery Technique" indicated that the technique could lead to more accurate and faster treatments. The study showed that TomoTherapy treatment times could be reduced by up to 66% using advanced radiation delivery techniques, the company noted.
The TomoTherapy delivery technique would rely on a dynamic collimator that can automatically adjust the size of the radiation beam to optimize dosage at the target and spare surrounding healthy tissue.
Another key component would be a patient couch that can be designed to accelerate treatment time by moving faster between target tumors or in those areas that do not require high doses of radiation.
The company said the study concluded that the combination of these two research advancements helped develop treatment plans of improved quality that indicated significantly shortened treatment times.
Dr. Florian Sterzing of the Department of Radiation Oncology at University Clinic Heidelberg, who led the study, noted that despite the study being limited to nasopharyngeal cancer applications, these techniques also would have great value in treating cancers throughout the body, particularly cancers of the prostate and cancers that have spread to different parts of the body.
A new treatment system - TomoHD - from the company will be commercially available in the second half of 2010. This systemhas been designed to support the Advanced TomoTherapy Delivery Technique, which is currently "a work-in-progress" and not available for sale.
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