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Varian (Siemens Healthineers)
Varian is the largest radiotherapy equipment maker and is running the first human FLASH proton trials.
Overview
Varian, based in Palo Alto and part of Siemens Healthineers, is the largest maker of radiotherapy equipment and is running the first human FLASH proton trials. Its systems include TrueBeam, Halcyon, the Ethos adaptive radiotherapy platform and ProBeam protons, and the FAST-01 and FAST-02 trials are testing FLASH ultra-high dose-rate treatment in patients. OnCo links it to IMRT and IGRT, proton therapy and FLASH radiotherapy, to AI auto-contouring and adaptive planning, to Aarhus University Hospital, and to ideas including a coordinated FLASH evidence programme with shared dose-rate standards and a Gavi-style pooled purchaser for radiotherapy equipment. Surgery and radiotherapy curing most patients while receiving least funding is the bottleneck it bears on. Whether FLASH spares normal tissue in people as it does in animals is the open question.
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fronts
technologies
AI auto-contouring and adaptive planningBrachytherapyC-arm medical linear accelerators (TrueBeam, Versa HD and others)Cryoablation systemsElectron beam therapy systems (linac electrons, total skin electron units, mobile electron IORT)Electronic patient-reported outcomes and remote monitoringFLASH radiotherapyFLASH research accelerators (Oriatron, Mobetron FLASH, ProBeam FLASH)IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)In-room imaging for radiotherapy (cone-beam CT, ExacTrac, CT-on-rails, HyperSight)Linac, proton system and brachytherapy machine manufacturingOncology EHR modules and treatment pathwaysOncology information and record-and-verify systems (ARIA, MOSAIQ)Patient positioning and surface guidance systems (AlignRT, Catalyst, ExacTrac Dynamic)Proton arc therapyProton therapyProton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systemsRadiotherapy treatment planning and QA softwareRemote afterloaders for HDR brachytherapyRespiratory gating and tumour tracking systems (RPM, ABC, Calypso, Synchrony)Ring-gantry linacs (Halcyon, Ethos)Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)
institutions
roadmaps
ideas
A coordinated FLASH radiotherapy evidence programme with shared dose-rate standardsA Gavi-style pooled purchaser for radiotherapy equipment and serviceA national repository of radiotherapy dose plans linked to outcomesAn open-hardware radiotherapy machine built for unreliable power and dustCertify every oncology software product for a standard bulk data exportCompact FLASH and proton systems at the price of a conventional linacCoverage-with-evidence registries for MR-guided and adaptive radiotherapyPay for radiotherapy machine uptime, not for the machineRadiotherapy for everyone who needs it by 2040Validate and reimburse AI contouring and planning to expand radiotherapy capacity
bottlenecks
Software in use
The software of oncology →Commercial and regulated products that this organisation sells. Each card says what is behind it: a regulator's database, the literature, a public body's list, or only the company's own words. Listing is not endorsement, and a clearance is a regulatory fact, not a clinical one.
The oncology record and record-and-verify system that sits between a radiotherapy plan and the machine that delivers it, holding the prescription, the images, the schedule and the delivered dose.
The planning and adaptation software behind online adaptive radiotherapy, which re-plans on the day's image while the patient is on the couch.
Varian's treatment planning system, the one most photon plans in the world are optimised and calculated in.
Varian (Siemens Healthineers)Paper 2019The current generation of Varian's oncology management system, sold as the record layer across radiotherapy, systemic therapy and theranostics.
Varian (Siemens Healthineers)no source outside the company foundThe chemotherapy side of ARIA: regimen libraries, dose calculation and the prescribing and administration checks a day unit works through before a drug is given.
Varian (Siemens Healthineers)no source outside the company foundA patient-reported outcome and symptom-tracking application for people on cancer treatment, feeding the answers back to the treating team.
Varian (Siemens Healthineers)no source outside the company found