RaySearch and ADAC Laboratories Announce Collaboration to Develop Next Generation of Radiation Therapy Planning Software
7/25/2000 7:00 AM EST
Laboratories continues to have
RaySearch and ADAC Laboratories close clinical ties to Karolinska
Announce Collaboration to Develop and is now actively commercializing
Next Generation of Radiation the results of this collaboration.
Therapy Planning Software for
Cancer Treatment. David Crussell, vice president and
general manager of ADAC's Radiation
July 25, 2000 Therapy Product business, stated,
"Our Pinnacle product has achieved
RaySearch Laboratories and ADAC its market-leading position by
Laboratories (Nasdaq: ADAC) providing superior software tools
announced today at the annual that bring advanced techniques into
American Association of Physicists clinical practice. Including
in Medicine meeting, a multi-year ORBIT's biological optimization
exclusive agreement with RaySearch capability will provide radiation
Laboratories AB, based in oncology departments with the next
Stockholm, Sweden, to jointly generation of advanced inverse IMRT
develop the next generation inverse planning on the Pinnacle platform.
planning intensity-modulated We are delighted to work with our
radiation therapy (IMRT) software long-term technology partner,
that will be integrated with ADAC's RaySearch, to bring this valuable
Pinnacle3 3D radiation treatment technology into the market."
planning system.
Johan Löf, director of product
The new software will be based on development at RaySearch, noted the
ORBIT (Optimization of Radiation synergy between ORBIT and ADAC's
Therapy Beams by Iterative Pinnacle3 system. "We are excited
Technique), an advanced software to work with ADAC to combine into a
tool developed at the Karolinska single, integrated package ORBIT's
Institute in Stockholm that is used ability to optimize radiation
to optimize radiation therapy therapy treatment plans with the
planning for the treatment of clinical accuracy of Pinnacle3's
cancer. SmartSim CT simulation software and
dose calculation algorithms. We
ORBIT represents a clinical believe the combined system will be
breakthrough in inverse planning the most clinically usable and
IMRT technology because it is relevant product available for
capable of handling very complex intensity modulation treatment
problems, such as the simultaneous planning."
optimization of intensity
modulation and radiation beam "ORBIT provides another logical
directions, using both physical and extension to our IMRT treatment
biological treatment objectives. As planning capabilities," said Harry
a result, ORBIT provides physicians Tschopik, director of global
the potential to be both more marketing for ADAC's Radiation
precise and more aggressive than Therapy Products group. "ADAC's
current IMRT treatments. It enables Pinnacle3 has been the dominant
the radiation oncologist to design market leader in conformal
an optimal treatment plan to radiation therapy planning over the
achieve complication-free tumor last several years. IMRT is an
control while accounting for extension of conformal therapy and
treatment uncertainties due to many of our users perform forward
organ motion, treatment setup planning IMRT using Pinnacle's
errors, and variations in patient current software. The inverse
sensitivity to radiation therapy. planning IMRT software we are now
developing will allow Pinnacle to
ORBIT has been under development as determine an optimal plan based on
a research tool at the Karolinska user-defined physical objectives.
Institute since 1985 and at With ORBIT, physicians will finally
RaySearch Laboratories since 2000. be able to take into account
In 1997, ADAC became a collaborator biological as well as physical
with medical physicists from factors during plan optimization.
Karolinska on the further We are very excited about the
development of ORBIT. RaySearch potential of these new tools for
improving cancer treatments and the
positive impact this will have on
our business going forward."
This news release contains forward-
looking statements, including
statements concerning
For further information please
contact:
Johan Löf, RaySearch Laboratories
Tel: + 46 8-545 061 30,
e-mail:
About RaySearch Laboratories
RaySearch Laboratories is a company
based in Stockholm, Sweden.
RaySearch is committed to
delivering innovative methods and
software for the improvement of
radiation therapy. The company
bases its operation on decades of
pioneering research in the field of
radiation therapy optimization
performed at the Karolinska
Institute in Stockholm.
About ADAC Laboratories
ADAC Laboratories is the world
market-share leader in nuclear
medicine and radiation therapy
planning systems, and a technology
leader providing clinical workflow
solutions, management information
and knowledge systems to healthcare
organizations in North America.
ADAC is headquartered in Milpitas,
CA, and its HealthCare Information
Systems Division is located in
Houston, Texas.