ESTRO 2012: OCTAVIUS 4D at Center Stage

Rotating OCTAVIUS 4D makes ESTRO visitors turn round

Surely, the star of the PTW booth was a smiling face in motion.  As the leading conference for radiation oncology in Europe,  the ESTRO Annual Meeting in Barcelona  provided PTW with an excellent platform to prominently showcase its new star OCTAVIUS 4D,  the latest addition to the OCTAVIUS IMRT QA family.

"With its unique OCTAVIUS 4D system", says Axel Hoffmann, Director of Sales at PTW, "PTW offers 4D IMRT dosimetry without compromise. OCTAVIUS 4D is the first and only 4D IMRT dose verification system that rotates the detector synchronously with the gantry, always aligned perpendicular to the beam. It makes it possible to verify the patient dose inside the entire phantom volume. Morever, dose verification is based on true independent ion chamber measurements which gives clinical users more confidence in the reliability of their measurement results. It gave me great pleasure to see that our OCTAVIUS 4D with its smiling face was so well received by the medical physics community at this year's ESTRO."

As a clinically versatile system, OCTAVIUS 4D supports other PTW detector arrays which can be conveniently upgraded to 4D dosimetry, including the new OCTAVIUS 1000 SRS detector for SRS/SBRT plan verification.

OCTAVIUS 4D comes complete with VeriSoft 5 IMRT plan verification software offering new powerful 3D dose analysis tools. The robust, functionally designed OCTAVIUS 4D trolley makes daily setup as comfortable and easy as possible.

Other major products exhibited: 
  • OCTAVIUS 1000 SRS
    Liquid-filled ionization chamber array for SRS/SBRT plan verification and beam QA, available for OCTAVIUS 4D mid-2012
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