Las Vegas CyberKnife® Experience with CyberKnife VOLO™ Optimization: Increase in Patient Throughput & Daily Volumes
ASSESSING OPTIONS
Las Vegas CyberKnife® began assessing upgrade options for their dedicated radiosurgery platform. Because existing delivery accuracy and treatment outcomes were optimal, the key objective was increased patient throughput.
Las Vegas CyberKnife worked with Accuray to upgrade their CyberKnife G4 version 9.6 and MultiPlan® version 4.5 to decrease treatment planning times significantly with new planning hardware and optimized software in the first release of Accuray Precision 1.0 and treatment delivery version 11.0.
Further treatment planning and treatment delivery optimization with the upgrade to CyberKnife v11.1 and Accuray Precision 2.0.1 with CyberKnife VOLO optimizer resulted in almost doubling patient throughput with a cost effective and minimally invasive upgrade.
CYBERKNIFE VOLO UPGRADE RESULTS
NEW UPGRADE CAPABILITIES ADDED
- CyberKnife VOLO Planning – offers speed, efficiency and optimization for treatment planning and delivery
- PreciseRTX Re-treatment – accelerates and automates the re-planning process to make re-treatment more efficient for practices and more effective for patients
- In addition to Deformable Registration and Auto Segmentation – offers unlimited volume of interest (VOIs) structures and 4 active sessions per workstation
WHO/WHERE
ABOUT THE CANCER CENTER
UPGRADE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
PATIENT THROUGHPUT
CASE MIX
Why and How We Upgraded
Positive Outcomes/Conclusion
For Oz Ozeroglu and his team, the ability to complete Monte Carlo lung plans 33%–50% more efficiently has had a significant impact for both patients and the department. The faster planning combined with decreased treatment times has almost doubled daily treatment capacity within regular clinic hours.
- Ability to treat almost twice the patients within same time window
- Planning time reduced to 20-30 minutes from hours
- Planning accuracy increased with deformable fusion
- Retreatment planning efficiency increased by PreciseRTX®
Chart Showing Case Mix and Time Saved Because of Upgrade
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