Automation and standardization: redefining best practice in stereotactic radiosurgery
27 May 2021 Sponsored by Brainlab
Brainlab’s treatment planning software and patient imaging systems provide key building blocks in the stereotactic radiosurgery programme at Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center
Simplicity, automation, efficiency and dose targeting with sub-mm accuracy: these are the operational reference points for the radiation oncology team running the stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) programme at Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center in San Diego, California. Underpinning that stereotactic clinical workflow is a portfolio of enabling technologies from Brainlab, a German healthcare equipment maker specializing in hardware and software products for SRS, surgical navigation and the next-generation “digital operating room”.
“Think automated treatment planning, high-precision patient positioning plus online imaging and thermal surface guidance,” says Steve Kirsner, director of medical physics at Scripps MD Anderson. “Our established suite of Brainlab products makes it easy for physicists to do what they have to do, allowing us to deliver high-quality care to our cancer patients every time. You can’t ask for more than that.”