NEW YORK, April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Accuracy in radiation
therapy demands careful targeting and patient positioning –
precision measured in millimeters. The Farber
Center for Radiation Oncology, the first and only freestanding
cancer center of its kind in Manhattan, is among the first
treatment centers to adopt Elekta’s HexaPOD™ evo RT system, a
unique fully robotic patient positioning system
that enables clinicians to fine-tune the patient’s treatment
position not only in three dimensions (x, y and
z), but also pitch, roll and yaw. These six independent
degrees of freedom enable doctors to easily reposition patients,
which decreases treatment time and achieves maximum accuracy.
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“The HexaPOD system is just one more smart way for us to provide
the most accurate – and therefore, least invasive –
radiation treatment possible,” says Dr. Leonard Farber, Radiation
Oncologist and founder of the Farber Center, which has been using
the new HexaPOD system in patient treatments.
“The imaging technology on our Elekta Infinity™ treatment
system allows us to detect any organ movement before therapy with
the patient in the treatment position. Then, HexaPOD helps us make
extra, minute position changes to obtain the most precise treatment
possible – zeroing in on the target, while also avoiding
radiation exposure to normal healthy tissue to the greatest extent
possible.”
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