Monaco®

State-of-the-Art Planning for IMRT and VMAT

Monaco® represents a fundamentally new approach to planning that brings the most innovative concepts to the clinic. These concepts provide sophisticated approaches to make planning easier, more reproducible and clinically reliable.

Monaco features innovative biological cost functions with multi-criterial constrained optimization, a powerful leaf sequence optimizer and a robust Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm, and represents the most advanced commercial solution. Monaco is fully integrated with the CMS Focal platform, providing seamless connectivity and integration with Focal’s advanced fusion, contouring, simulation and plan review capabilities, providing sophisticated IMRT planning.

  • Monaco VMAT Head and Neck Plan Constrained optimization ensures the prescribed dose limits on OARs and target dose are satisfied after optimization.
  • Multi-criterial goals results in better normal tissue sparing during optimization.
  • Sensitivity Analysis easily solves the conflicts between target dose objective and dose limiting constraints.
  • Smart Sequencing using a sophisticated sequencer optimization minimizes the number of segments and monitor units in order to reduce overall treatment time.
  • Biological modeling improves optimization of the dose by providing a wide range of cost functions.
  • Dynamic Conformal Arc (DCA) provides clinicians with a simple way to deliver highly conformal stereotactic plans.
  • Supports comparison of segmental IMRT with VMAT plans to choose the most appropriate for each patient.

 

Monaco with VMAT

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"Biological-based optimization and volumetric modulated arc therapy delivery for stereotactic body radiation therapy"
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Utilizing VMAT (Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy) functionality, Monaco can optimize single or multiple coplanar or non-coplanar arcs simultaneously, providing greater flexibility and control. Only Monaco offers the highly accurate XVMC Monte Carlo dose engine for continuous arc calculation as a single beam, rather than dose approximations from multiple and discrete gantry angle delivered beams.  Delivery of arc plans is as simple as a single button push at the linear accelerator console. Gantry directions are automatically sorted, and all control points are seamlessly integrated into a single deliverable arc sequence. Monaco supports comparison of segmental IMRT and VMAT plans to choose the most appropriate for each patient.

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