Auto ROI^™ Module

“Vision RT decreases both the time of breast setup for right and left breast lesions, and has really improved our accuracy. Vision RT has also improved the setup for many other disease sites … it is improving our accuracy and throughput.”

Nancy Wiggers MD Radiation Oncologist, Department Chair, Northside Hospital

“What we were really after was equivalent positional accuracy. If we could find a technology and justify to ourselves that it is equivalent to existing technologies, that’s what we were going for. Enter Vision RT and their AlignRT product, and we had the tool that we were looking for.”

Todd Pawlicki, PhD DABR FAAP Vice Chair and Professor, Dept. of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, UCSD

“Vision RT provides a simple-to-use and very effective way to save dose to the heart and lung in these patients. Our ambition is to widen the use of respiratory gating in the future.”

Mathias Dierl Head of Medical Physics, Klinikum Bayreuth, Germany

“We see significant value in three areas: checking patient position at CT to ensure a robust setup and avoid unnecessary dose from scans in an unusable position; enhancing planning through increasing the range of beam options; improving the use of resources and the patient experience by avoiding dry runs and delays due to last minute replans.”

Helen Convery Senior Dosimetrist (Development & Clinical Trials)

“Cherenkoscopy is a unique method for visualizing surface dose, resulting in real-time quality control. We propose that this system could detect radiation therapy errors in everyday clinical practice at a time when these errors can be corrected to result in improved safety and quality of radiation therapy.”

“The location of the tracking point in non-SGRT techniques can allow errors to be introduced such as a patient arching their back or belly breathing. By using SimRT and placing the tracking point on the stable part of the captured anatomy you can ensure that the patient is breathing correctly by filling their lungs. SimRT software will also allow the therapist to see if the patient can achieve the same results when repeated breathholds are required.”

“SimRT is close to being the ideal 4DCT gating system. The use of surface imaging and the markerless approach is an elegant, simple solution which is (in my opinion) superior to using a marker block or any other device requiring physical contact with the patient.” 

“AlignRT InBore allows us to combine the benefits of fast CBCT, high dose rate and continuous monitoring of patient motion to perform safe DIBH treatments”.

“There was definitely a time and accuracy advantage with implementing AlignRT Advance, especially with the postural positioning element. It has helped us increase our patient volume without extending our hours or straining our resources and we are still able to maintain a very high-level quality of care, while still keeping our patients comfortable.”

Felicia Gretah, Radiation Therapist Cleveland Clinic Florida, USA

“We use thermoplastic open masks with head and shoulder support, this helps ensure reproducible positioning, we use multiple ROI’s to position the patient and CBCT comparisons has shown accurate positioning and excellent correlation with internal imaging.”

Kirsten Hierholz Chief Medical Physicist, Klinikum Darmstadt, Institut für Radioonkologie und Strahlentherapie, Germany

“We were thrilled to find that incorporating SGRT into the prostate patient setup process reduced reimaging rates and therefore reduced the amount of time our patients had to maintain a full bladder.”

Stephanie Parker, MS, FAAPM Medical Physicist

« À l’hôpital Beacon, AlignRT permet une délivrance sûre et précise de la SBRT pour plusieurs localisations. AlignRT offre plusieurs avantages pour la délivrance du traitement SBRT dans notre établissement, notamment la surveillance en temps réel du patient, la gestion des mouvements respiratoires, la surveillance continue et de haute précision des mouvements du patient pendant la CBCT. L’utilisation d’AlignRT pour la SBRT a renforcé notre confiance dans la délivrance d’un traitement précis »

Luke Rock MSc, DABR Physicien Médical en Chef Département de radiothérapie, Beacon Hospital, Irlande

« Traditionnellement, les techniques SBRT ont offert des gains en matière de précision, mais souvent au prix de facteurs tels que l’efficacité, la personnalisation et le confort du patient; les données actuelles semblent suggérer que la SGRT a surmonté ce défi de compromis »

Mike Tallhamer, DABR Chef de la radiophysique, AdventHealth

“Incorporating a personalized, whole-body clearance map in the treatment planning workflow can facilitate the adoption of non-coplanar beams or arcs that benefit the SBRT plan dosimetry.”

“Radiotherapy is all about striking up a balance between comfort and accuracy. This technique represents a significant step forward for both, and I am thrilled to be able to offer it to our patients.”

Jacob Curran SABR & Motion Management Radiographer, Lincoln County Hospital

“You’ve also got the benefit of being able to track promotion of the patients while you’re treating them… so you can be more accurate with treatments.”

Joshua Student Therapeutic Radiographer

Patient ID fits in really well with our overall workflow. The focus on patient safety and the fact that we definitely know we’ve got the right patient in the room every time is a real benefit to us, and our conversation with the patient can focus on what really matters to them.

Kyle Woods Principal Radiographer, GenesisCare, UK

AlignRT surface-guided radiation therapy is accurate, efficient, and comfortable for patients. The fact that we can achieve SRS-level accuracy with an efficient setup and deliver while providing optimal comfort for the patient is a game-changer for radiation therapy. We have been using this approach for frameless SRS for over 10 years now and couldn’t imagine doing it any other way.

Todd Pawlicki, PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO Director of Medical Physics

Intrafraction motion is a real thing, and it happens. We have collected data that shows even in a framed stereotactic case, patients move millimeters. Without having a way to observe the treatment, you’re walking in the dark. With AlignRT, you feel like you’re walking in the light. You know where you’re going. AlignRT allows us to deliver stereotactic treatments comfortably, accurately, and safely.

“MapRT allows us to use non-coplanar treatments where before we would not have considered rotating the couch. This can be beneficial for organ at risk dose, especially for all lung treatments – with even more improvement for those close to the main bronchus. It took less than a week for us to implement scanning, with additional planning skills taking a few weeks to acquire.”

Kirsten Hierholz Senior Medical Physicist, Klinikum Darmstadt, Germany

“More freedom, better plans…better outcomes, less side effects.”

Kirsten Hierholz Senior Medical Physicist, Klinikum Darmstadt, Germany

“We succeeded in reducing the dose to the organs at risk while having the same coverage to the target and to the tumour, without huge additional time in terms of treatment. The quality of the treatment is improved, keeping the same level of security and delivering the treatment safety.”

Igor Bessières PhD Medical Physicist, Centre Georges-François Leclerc

“This technique represents a significant step forward for both comfort and accuracy, and I am thrilled to be able to offer it to our patients.”

“SGRT has improved patient comfort by eliminating the need for skin markers, which many patients find unpleasant or psychologically distressing.”

“AlignRT helps us increase confidence in every treatment we use it for, allowing for more accurate treatment delivery.”

“With SGRT, we spend less time on reimaging and now have more time to focus on each patient. This allows us to confidently take on more complex treatments.”

“The key improvements with SGRT are not just in time reduction but in treatment precision, patient comfort, ease of technician positioning, dosimetric accuracy, and safety due to constant monitoring.”

“For DIBH cases in particular, the ability to halt treatment immediately if a patient moves out of alignment ensures higher precision. This has reduced the need for frequent imaging during treatment sessions and increased overall treatment efficiency.”

“AlignRT has enabled us to increase patient safety and comfort, as we no longer have to tattoo and mark our patients, as we had to using traditional radiation therapy, to set patients up for daily treatment.”

Learn how EWHA Woman’s University Seoul became the first in Korea, and third in Asia to go tattoo and mark-free.

Kim Kyung Su Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology, EWHA Woman’s University Seoul Hospital

“SGRT has improved our workflows and reduced the need for repeat imaging, ensuring the patient is consistently in the correct position.”

“Cherenkov imaging is detecting approximately 8% errors with our patients. We can do better for our patients”

“This is a big innovation from a quality and safety perspective. We don’t know what we don’t know. 6-8% of errors is a lot of errors.”

“Using SGRT for prostate setups has increased staff efficiency and patient satisfaction – we are so grateful to have this in our clinic.”

“With MapRT we eliminated the need for dry runs or collision checks. Even with a simple supine breast treatment, a patient’s elbow position can be in the way of the gantry, and we will not find out until the first day of treatment. With MapRT we can ensure that there are no collisions with the patient, couch or accessories that would cause harm to the patient or delay their treatment due to a replan.”

Overall, our experience with the AlignRT InBore system has been very high in therapist satisfaction. There’s a reduction in setup time and reimaging dose. It also gives better patient motion monitoring while the beam is on.”

“Having this tool adds to the department’s efficiency and minimizes the amount of time the patient is on the table.”

“This is going to become the standard of care in radiotherapy.”

“A simple thing like adding one non-coplanar arc can make a dramatic difference in the plan quality, can significantly reduce the dose to OARs and have a meaningful impact on the patient’s quality of life.”

“From the MD Standpoint, what I would encourage everyone to do is not ‘pretty good treatments’, but to do the best treatment for your patients.”

Kiran Kumar, MD University of Texas Southwestern

“We measured a lot of our appointments and [by using SimRT] we were able to reduce appointment times by 60%, from 1 hour to 20 minutes.”

Adi Robinson Senior Medical Physicist, AdventHealth Celebration

“SimRT played a crucial role in our transition to SGRT, allowing us to validate breath-hold reproducibility and integrate SGRT with confidence. This transition demonstrates the power of innovation in radiation therapy – improving efficiency, patient comfort, and therapist experience.”

“The OIS reports module automated our SGRT reporting process. Now we never miss an SGRT report, and the physician can review and approve them together with the IGRT daily review.”

Adi Robinson, PhD, DABR AdventHealth Florida, USA

“AlignRT has helped our workflows and treatment times, and the amount of imaging has gone down. We have a lot more confidence when we’re setting up the patient and it’s been a massive benefit for us.”

“Non-coplanar beams have long been used for creating high-quality plans for treatment of brain tumors due to the freedom to choose couch and gantry angles with little risk of collision. With the collision risk mitigated through the use of software like MapRT, then treatments in the head and neck and trunk using non-coplanar beams will similarly produce superior plans compared to coplanar beam arrangements. Significant additional organ-at-risk sparing can be achieved in most cases with non-coplanar beams along with improved target dose fall-off. It’s time to utilize our linear accelerators for all the degrees of freedom they offer for optimizing treatments.”

“Setup time can be significantly reduced without compromising setup accuracy.”