Treatment planning system to be installed at Taiwan smart hospital

Taichung Veterans General Hospital will use a Sumitomo proton therapy machine.

Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TVGH) will soon get a treatment planning system from photon therapy machine vendor for the fast delivery of plans involving the treatment of moving tumors.

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) announced this in a press release, saying that Sumitomo Corporate has placed an order for RayStation®* treatment planning system to install the system at TVGH.

The order has licenses for both proton and photon treatment and advanced functionality such as Multi Criteria Optimization (MCO) and dose calculation on CBCT images for proton treatment.

TVGH will use a Sumitomo proton therapy machine with Sumitomo's compact next-generation system, to which RayStation will be adapted. 

The delivery of the device is expected in 2025 and will be used to improve patient outcomes.