Treatment Equipment
Explore the advanced technological resources that enable high-quality patient care and treatment planning
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The flagship of the world’s leading vendor of radiation oncology equipment, the TrueBeam, is specially optimized for the treatment of lung cancer. It utilizes a 10MV flattening filter free beam capable of delivering 2400 MU/min. It delivers Rapid Arc treatments which may be gated to deliver dose at a certain point in the patient’s breathing cycle. This unique technology ensures full delivery of dose to the target while sparing dose to surrounding tissue. This machine is equipped with an on-board imager that makes both x-ray images and CT images, assuring the patient position is perfect before the treatment begins. Truebeam is one of two machines in our department designed to deliver stereotactic body radiation therapy. The Brown Cancer Center is the first in Kentucky to offer this treatment option.
A revolutionary machine and the first machine to offer the delivery of 6 MV Image Guided Radiation Therapy, the Brown Cancer Center was the first in Kentucky to offer 6 MV TomoTherapy treatments. It is still considered as the optimal choice for treatment of many head and neck patients.
The 6 MV CyberKnife is a unique machine capable of the most precise stereotactic radiation delivery of any machine currently manufactured. It may be used to treat patients with intracranial disease as well as some head & neck, lung and prostate patients.
This imaging system is optimized with a large bore (opening) for the acquisition of imaging data for radiation oncology treatment planning. It accumulates 16 slices per rotation and can provide full 4-dimensional imaging so that the entire breathing cycle may be imaged for treatment planning of moving targets. Coupled with the Truebeam or Trilogy, lung patients may be treated with gated Rapid Arc, the highest quality and precision treatment delivery currently available.
- High Dose Rate Brachytherapy
- Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy
- Intraoperative Radioactive Mesh
- Prostate Brachytherapy
- 4-D Motion Management for treatment of thoracic and abdominal malignancies
- Real-time Tumor Tracking with Calypso technology
- Treatment for lung, liver, prostate, and many other malignancies in as few as 3-5 treatments
Frameless Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)
- Treatment of intracranial malignancies in 1-3 sessions
Partial Breast Irradiation
Unsealed Source Administration- Radium 223, Samarium 153, Iodine 131
Total Skin Electron (TSE) therapy
- For treatment of cutaneous malignancies such as Mycosis Fungoides
Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
- In conjunction with the U of L Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) team