Expansion of Raystation Treatment Planning System at The Inova Schar Cancer Institute

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announces an order from the Inova Department of Advanced Radiation Oncology and Proton Therapy in Alexandria and Fairfax regions of Virginia, significantly increasing the number of licenses to expand the use of RayStation in both photon and proton treatment planning.

Inova is Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider and is comprised of five hospitals in the Washington DC region. The Inova Schar Cancer Institute provides many types of radiation therapy treatments, including proton therapy, Stereotactic Body Therapy (SBRT), Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) as well as the full range of conventional treatments.

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Nine linear accelerators are in use at the centers, as well as an Accuray Cyberknife and the IBA proton delivery system. The expansion will provide for the ability to handle more patients for multiple modalities in RayStation including volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), deformable registration, adaptive therapy, and Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) – while building on their current platform.

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Dr. Jiajin Fan, Chief Physicist says, “We have been using RayStation for some time now, and we believe that expanding its use in our centers is key to our ability to provide the highest quality plans possible while maintaining efficiency throughout our system. The fact that we can use RayStation for most of our treatment types was a key factor in our decision to expand our infrastructure.”

Johan Löf, founder and CEO, RaySearch, says: “We have had a good collaboration with Inova since their first installation and I am now happy to hear that they will expand their RayStation usage. As we have seen with other customers such a large facility with mixed treatment delivery machines will see significant efficiency gains by a using RayStation for all its treatment.

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