New Vero SBRT system for Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY

Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York plans to use a Vero SBRT system for advanced patient treatments, especially for indications with moving targets like lung, liver or prostate.

This purchase marks the 16^th Vero sale worldwide and will be the third system installed in the United States. 

Vero was favored over other platforms due to its advanced imaging capabilities and motion management system, which will allow their clinical team to provide sophisticated patient treatments. It will be installed in the new Upstate Cancer Center that is expected to open in the fall of 2013.

Upstate University Hospital offers comprehensive cancer treatments in all of Central New York. This broad range of cancer treatments includes programs in thoracic, breast, brain, spine, blood, bone, gynecologic and genitourinary.

ASTRO Annual Meeting is Showcase for Vero SBRT

Vero GmbH Presents 1:1 Model of Next-Generation System

Vero GmbH showcased a 1:1 model of it’s state-of-the-science SBRT system to the more than 4000 professionals attending the 53^rd annual ASTRO meeting held in Miami, Florida, October 2-6, 2011.

The Vero SBRT full-scale model demonstrated the system’s new dynamic tumor tracking feature, a unique treatment approach designed to significantly reduce the use of margins for moving targets. Studies are currently underway to prove that Vero is able to treat moving targets as accurately as it treats static targets.  Combined with fluoroscopy sequences, Vero dynamic tracking enables real-time precision treatment of moving targets. Furthermore, the system has the potential to simultaneously move the gantry and the ring for smooth transition between coplanar and non-coplanar treatments. Called Dynamic Wave Arc, this advanced technology allows clinicians to drive arcs in wave movement avoiding healthy tissue, organic risks and tumors.

Over 1,000 patients have been treated since the first Vero system was installed in Kobe, Japan, in 2008. There are 11 Vero systems sold and mainly already installed around the world.