Equipment

CT Simulation

Advantage SIM provides complete volume definition and geometric beam placement capability for radiotherapy. It is then able to compute a real time DRR for any type of patient set-up and can fully replace a classic X-ray simulator for treatment set-up reference image generation.

Benefits

• Provides full information about the patient anatomy at image acquisition resolution
• Automatic Outlining – Plus erosion and dilation
• Contour Tracing – Traces the surface of a structure using the mouse and defines the volume by interpolation
• Volume Expansion – Create a new volume with user-defined margins
• Contour Editing – Edit the shape of a contour using the mouse
• Conform on Multiple Structures – for beam and block definition

Features

• OverDrive-Sub-second DRRs, even using many slices at small spacing
• Enhanced Object Mixing, helps to visualize structures that are otherwise obscured
• ISOMOVE – interactively recalculates the DRR while beam isocenter is being moved
• Industry standard networking – DICOM-RT
• Depth Control – Excludes pixels outside a user defined range

Availability

• All GE CT Systems
• Advantage Workstation 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2