Voice of Experience
It may be gutsy to say but I don’t think you need a lot of immobilization [for lung SBRT], frankly, when you have Vision RT monitoring throughout treatment.
AlignRT facilitates a reproducible breath hold for SBRT, and is easily incorporated into our workflow.
Traditionally SBRT technologies have offered gains in accuracy but often at the cost of things like efficiency, customization, and comfort for the patient; current evidence seems to suggest that SGRT has overcome this trade-off challenge.
The utlilisation of lung SBRT has really increased in the recent years, and in particular we find that tumours in the lower lung have movement that require Breath hold. AlignRT allows us to deliver these treatments safely and efficiently.
At Beacon Hospital, AlignRT is central to the safe and accurate delivery of SBRT for multiple treatment sites. AlignRT offers several benefits for SBRT treatment delivery at our facility including real-time monitoring of the patient, management of respiratory motion and continuous and high precision monitoring of patient movement during cone-beam CT image matching. The use of AlignRT for SBRT has increased our confidence in providing an accurate treatment delivery.