Revolution in radiation therapy: Ethos brings personalized healing!

Revolution in radiation therapy: Ethos brings personalized healing!

At the University Hospital Leipzig (UKL), the innovative ethos system ensures a revolutionary change in radiation therapy. This state -of -the -art therapy system enables adaptive treatments that can be individually adjusted during the radiation process. Prof. Dr. Dr. Nils Nicolay, director of the Clinic for Radiation Therapy, emphasizes the advantages of the system. Important aspects are the protection of surrounding organs and the significant reduction in side effects, which increases the chances of therapy.

In the conventional radiation therapy environment, the preparation and quality assurance are usually time -consuming processes that take up for several days. But with the ethos system, treatment is adjusted at every session in a few minutes. This is the strength of adaptive radiation therapy, which is characterized by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to continuously optimize the treatment. healthcarein-in-europe.com explains that the system is able to integrate the individual anatomy and the current tumor position of the patient more into the treatment process.

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The ethos system, which also applies in other clinics such as the University Hospital Münster and the University Hospital Essen, thus revolutionizes the role of radiation therapy. AI technology supports medicine and medicine physics by helping with the daily adaptation of the therapy. CT images are created, which are correlated with earlier recordings in order to update the radiation plan quickly and precisely. [hcm-magazin.de] (https://www.hcm-magazin.de/personalized-tumoredizin-in-der- der- der-dank-ki-406323/) emphasizes that the AI ​​is accessed to billions of images and monitored by trained specialists to ensure individual therapeutic steps.

A particularly remarkable advantage is the adaptability of the ethos system. If, for example, in the treatment of prostate or bladder cancer, the inner organs influence the location and size of the areas to be irradiated, changes are made in real time. In the case of conventional procedures, the number of radiation sessions could be significantly reduced, which could reduce the duration of treatment for prostate carcinomas from 40 to 5 sessions. [uks.eu] (https://www.uks.eu/kliniken-stätungen/radiodiagnostik-nuklearmedizin therapy/strahlent therapy-radioonkology/schwerpunkt/adaptive-radiation) indicates that ethos is one of the few available options for adaptive radiation therapy in Germany and Europe and in some regions such as Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland is even unique.