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VariSeed? 8.0 Brochure
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VARIAN BRACHYTHERAPY | INFORM PLAN VERIFY TREAT VariSeed Prostate Treatment Planning

The VariSeed standard Benchmark for prostate seed implant brachytherapy Designed for ease of use, and congured to support all popular treatment protocols, VariSeed™ dynamic dosimetry has evolved over the past 10 years with the demands of practitioners to become the standard treatment planning system against which all others are measured. With over 1,700 systems in use throughout the world, VariSeed is the prostate brachytherapy system you can trust to meet your needs, now and in the future. New for 8.0 • Direct Ethernet connection to BK Medical’s Pro Focus™ scanner eliminates the need to...

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A complete range of powerful tools Fuse CT, MR, and US images with the Image Outstanding features Fusion option. Contouring Data acquisition VariSeed offers three main image acquisition methods: video frame capture, digital image transfer from the Pro Focus scanner and transducer and a DICOM 3 data interface. The Pro Focus interface allows digital quality images as well as eliminating the need to calibrate the ultrasound image from within VariSeed. The Twister™ VariSeed™ 3D ultrasound acquisition module allows you to acquire target data by rotating the probe in longitudinal mode, reducing...

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Continuing the evolution in planning The right tools Sector Analysis™ module With Sector Analysis, VariSeed 8.0 introduces the ability to take plan analysis from whole prostate to correlation with saturation biopsies for both pre- and post-planning. Sector Analysis allows dosimetric quality parameters to be displayed for biopsy sections of the prostate. Longitudinal volume acquisition When used in conjunction with a tracked SeedFinder is fast and effective. All major biopsy patterns are supported, to automatically divide the prostate into up to 12 sectors and provide dose parameters for...

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Setting the standard in brachytherapy More advanced features Plan Templates and Nomogram Planning For centers that prefer a regular pattern of needles, and especially those that use standard placements, plan templates are ideal. A plan template allows needle and seed positions to be stored, and then recalled for any patient. The whole needle and seed array can then be shifted on the template to t the patient, giving the planner a fast start to the plan. Plan analysis VariSeed has a rich suite of tools to enable you to extract all the data from the plan that you require. These include...

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Customized prostate treatment planning systems System congurations VariSeed planning systems are available Services Convenience laptop Gold *Tested to Medical Safety Standard IEC • Plan Variations Full planning systems • Place and manipulate linked seeds Installation If you have a single workstation, you may Includes Silver coverage plus loaner hard- 601-1 (EN 60601-1-1). The laptop is classi- Systems are shipped pre-congured, so wish to acquire a second to use for data ware to cover failed hardware components ed as Type B equipment and as non- you can normally accomplish cable con-...

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Varian Medical Systems Oncology Systems 3100 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304-1038 Tel: 650.424.5700 | Tel: 800.544.4636 http://www.varian.com For more information on VariSeed, visit http://www.varian.com/brachytherapy. USA Headquarters California Varian Medical Systems Palo Alto, CA Tel: 650.424.5700 800.544.4636 Fax: 650.493.5637 www.varian.com BrachyTherapy Offices USA Varian Medical Systems BrachyTherapy Head Office Charlottesville, VA Tel: 888.666.7847 Fax: 434.244.7181 UK Varian Medical Systems UK Ltd. BrachyTherapy Crawley, West Sussex, UK Tel: 44.1293.601.219 Fax: 44.1293.542.626...

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