Halcyon
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Halcyon System Designed for Efficiency, Achieving More

Power new victories in the cancer fight with Halcyon At Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, we understand today’s challenges—whether its resource pressures, operational inefficiencies, or any number of obstacles facing clinicians. That’s why we are continually innovating to ensure our solutions, and world-class services are seamlessly integrated—elevating every clinician’s ability and confidence in helping patients win their fight against cancer. Our dedication to intelligent innovation continues with Halcyon. Halcyon system is designed to enhance and streamline radiotherapy treatments...

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Halcyon Designed for Efficiency, Achieving More Halcyon is accessible to all, will not compromise your needs, and provides configuration options to fit your clinic. Halcyon is efficient from installation through treatment delivery, and facilitates the improvement of virtually every aspect of a cancer center’s operation and clinical workflows. Fast installation and training enable the start of patient treatments in a couple of weeks. Halcyon is focused on what your clinic needs. Its capabilities in delivering high quality radiotherapy allows clinics to treat patients with conventional and...

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Accessible Improved User Experience Halcyon brings user experience to the next level. With an intuitive, nine-step treatment delivery process and ‘follow the blue light’ color-guided workflow, therapists can focus more on the patient. Halcyon also enhances QA and Physics tasks efficiency by consolidating them in a dedicated Physics QA mode workspace. Halcyon system “The Halcyon is a wonderful machine—it has extreme software, it gets upgraded all the time, and the mechanics of it are very simplified.”† —Dr. Diane Heaton Northeastern Oklahoma Cancer Institute, C

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Accessible Patient-Friendly Environment The quiet, water-cooled system facilitates a comfortable treatment room environment for users and patients alike. The 100 cm diameter bore with ambient lighting provides a patientfriendly environment—with a design that clinicians are familiar with since it resembles conventional imaging systems. Halcyon also provides a safe environment with an enclosed system design that reduces collisions with couch and patients. The integrated live view camera and intercom system always makes communication available between patients and therapists. “Halcyon provides...

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Efficient Reduced Operational Costs Being efficient is as much about treatment delivery efficiency as it is about operational efficiency. Halcyon’s highly-efficient capabilities start with fast installation and is operationally ready within 15 days. Fast Installation and Deployment Total: 15 Days “I think the preloaded beam data is a huge advantage. It makes the commissioning of this machine fairly straightforward, makes it a lot easier, and the visual cues for collisions during treatment planning are really great.”† —Dexter Wilson University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia PA...

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Efficient Fast Imaging and Treatments The image guidance process in Halcyon can be done at expedited speed— MV imaging in seven seconds, MV CBCT acquisition in 15 seconds, and kV CBCT in as fast as 17 seconds*—automatic matching with reference CT and no imager deployment also help speed up the imaging process. Fast dual-layer MLC motion up to 5 cm/sec** allows treatment to be delivered at close to maximum dose rate, and four RPM*** gantry speed saves time between IMRT fields. RapidArc treatments are delivered typically at two RPM** on average (for conventional dose fractionation). Halcyon...

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Efficient Examples of Halcyon clinically efficient cases and planning quality: Left Chest Wall, Supraclavicular and posterior axillary boost Nasopharyngeal Cancer Five arcs; 74 cm diameter; lateral and anterior avoidance Four arcs; 1.8 Gy x 28 fractions Two arcs; single isocenter; 2.0 Gy x 30 fractions PTV boost Two Gy x Five fractions 130 seconds Beam on time 63 seconds Beam on time 150 seconds Beam on time “After delivering 3,782 fractions, the average time a patient is in the Halcyon bunker is 6:51 minutes (after four months of clinical experience on Halcyon).”† —Dr. rer. medic. Matthias...

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Focused 100% Image-Guided RT High-quality treatment delivery may be achieved by using 3D CBCT images to allow for internal visualization. kV CBCT offers a large field of view* and improves soft tissue contrast. Iterative CBCT utilizes statistical reconstruction methods, Acuros CTS and motion reliance algorithms to enable better quality of CBCT images of anatomies, including those suffering from residual motion. “Treatment plans and pre-treatment imaging are of a high quality—the system is capable of treating a wide variety of diagnoses.”† —Ben Archibald-Heeren ICON Cancer Centers, Sydney,...

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Designed for treatments head to toe. Halcyon Central Nervous System Treatment Example With the treatment capabilities of Halcyon, customers around the globe have been able to treat a variety of anatomical sites—including, but not limited to—breast, brain, lung, skin lesions, extremities, prostate, head & neck, spine, liver, esophagus, brain metastasis, cervical, abdomen, and more. Patient treatments with standard fractionation can be scheduled in a 10-minute slot in some cases, while other fractionations like SBRT are reported to be scheduled in a 20 to 25 treatment time slot. Medical...

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Experience the power of the stacked-andstaggered MLC. Varian’s advanced dual-layer MLC for Halcyon brings low leakage and transmission of 0.01%, overtravel distance of 28 cm, full interdigitation, leaf speed of 5 cm/s, and 5 mm field shaping resolution. With Halcyon, there is the potential to achieve less dosage to organs at risk and more dose conformity to the target with the MLC stacked-andstaggered technology. The dual-layered MLC makes it possible to deliver IMRT and RapidArc treatments faster and more efficiently than before. Multiple fields IMRT, multiple arcs RapidArc, and simple...

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