The UAB Department of Radiation Oncology prides itself on remaining at the technological forefront of the industry. The technology backbone of our clinical enterprise is the ARIA™ oncology information system which is deployed through centrally-hosted application virtualization software, permitting access from anywhere in the world. Our primary technologies include:

Simulation

• Philips Brilliance Big Bore 32 Slice CT
• 4DCT and phased based gating simulation capabilities, using the Varian Real-time Position Management™ (RPM) system
  

Treatment planning and dosimetry

• Eclipse™ treatment planning system for 3D planning
• Eclipse intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Eclipse planning for RapidArc™ radiotherapy technology
• Hyperarc™ for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery
• RapidPlan™ machine learning treatment planning module
• Eclipse Brachyvision
• Mobius3D Comprehensive platform for patient quality assurance
• Portal dosimetry for IMRT verification
  

Treatment delivery

• Varian Ethos Adaptive Radiotherapy Platform
• Varian ProBeam 360°™ proton therapy system
• Edge linear accelerator
• TrueBeam linear accelerator
• Clinac® iX linear accelerator with OBI (kV and CBCT)
• Hyperarc™ for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery
• RapidArc™ radiotherapy technology
• Varian Bravos Afterloader
• Varian PerfectPitch™ 6 degrees of freedom couch
• Real-time Position Management™ (RPM) system for respiratory gating
• Surface Imaging for surface guided radiotherapy
  

IGRT and treatment localization 

• OBI radiographic: kV-kV localization
• OBI radiographic: MV localization
• OBI CBCT
• Surface Imaging for surface guided radiotherapy
• Varian PerfectPitch™ 6 degrees of freedom couch
  

Intracranial and extracranial stereotactic radiosurgery

• HyperArc™ for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
• Virtual Cone for trigeminal neuralgia, thalamotomy and functional tremors
• Stereotactic body image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) with hypo-fractionation
• Surface Imaging for surface guided radiotherapy
• CBCT guidance for hypo-fractionated treatments
  

Partnership with Varian Medical Systems

We are a proud partner with Varian Medical Systems, and serve as a Varian demonstration site. We also utilize our radiosurgery expertise to host our SRS/SBRT training course, a three day conference that discusses and demonstrates stereotactic radiation (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation (SBRT) delivery with Eclipse™ and TrueBeam™.