GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., is demonstrating new options for its Optima MR450w MRI scanner for oncology applications, as well as new software designed to improve workflow in oncology practices, at this week's American Society for Radiation Therapy (ASTRO) meeting.
GE's Radiation Oncology Options package is designed to enable clinicians to use MR450w to perform radiation therapy planning on the scanner, which features a 50-cm field-of-view. The package is specifically designed to improve tumor targeting in the brain, head and neck, and pelvis.
The radiation oncology package was developed in partnership with CIVCO Medical Solutions of Kalona, IA, and consists of a flat couch insert with industry standard indexing and MR compatible positioning devices for the brain, head and neck, and pelvis.
In other ASTRO news, GE is introducing MD Connect, a software application designed to guide workflow in oncology practices. The thin-client software was developed in collaboration with Varian Medical Systems of Palo Alto, CA, and runs on GE's Oncology Server, which enables sites to access a suite of oncology applications anywhere in a healthcare enterprise.
MD Connect will also support Varian's Eclipse treatment planning platform; it is currently being validated to work with Eclipse.
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