SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Elekta will showcase
updates to its Leksell GammaPlan® 10.0* treatment planning
software for Leksell Gamma Knife® and the Extend™ program
for Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™ at the 2010 Congress
of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting, October 16-21 at
the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The Extend program dramatically
broadens the types of cases for which clinicians can use
Perfexion.
On the show floor, Elekta booth #109 will feature hands-on
demonstrations of Extend, which combines patient-friendly head
immobilization technology and stereotactic localization methods to
permit hypofractionated Gamma Knife treatments
for larger tumors or lesions close to critical structures located
in the brain, skull base and other head and neck regions.
Updates to GammaPlan 10.0 include
the two optional add-ons Inverse Planning and Convolution. Inverse
Planning provides a fast, easy solution for Gamma Knife surgery
planning, providing more reliable dose planning. The Convolution
add-on is designed to increase confidence in the dose distribution
and helps provide the optimum dose for heterogeneities in the
skull.
Other meeting highlights
A leader and pioneer in neurosurgical solutions for decades,
Elekta also will exhibit products that have set the standard for
precision and efficiency in neurosurgical interventions and
diagnosis, including:
- Elekta Axesse™, a fully integrated stereotactic system
that combines 3D target visualization at time of treatment, 6D
sub-millimeter robotic patient positioning and high-resolution beam
shaping, making it a versatile treatment system perfectly suited
for spine radiosurgery and neuro-oncology.
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