Worldwide application specialists in Carl Zeiss’s intraoperative radiotherapy device, Intrabeam, which uses radiance to plan the doses to be applied, have attended a two-day training session in GMV’s Tres Cantos head office. Run by Carlos Illana, product manager for radiance, it took the form of two work modules, one theoretical and the other hands-on, including cases of clinical use like kyphoplasty, skin, abdomen and breast. After presentation of the work being carried out by GMV in its various areas, attendees were taken on a guided tour of its site.

One of the most striking features of radiance, GMV’s pioneering and unique IORT planner, is the dose-calculation algorithm called Hybrid Monte Carlo, jointly developed with the two universities Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Hybrid Monte Carlo is an algorithm that enables extremely high levels of precision to be achieved in very small calculation times (compatible with use in an operating theater), comparable with pure Monte Carlo algorithms.

Zeiss applications specialists will train up final clients to obtain the best results when using the equipment and increase its therapeutic range.

The training of the technical and healthcare teams that will help end users to use radiance is broken down into two blocks: a technical session given by Field System Engineers (FSE) and another clinical session run by clinical collaborators of Zeiss and the Application Specialists within the TARGIT Academy and, in initial treatment, in the hospitals themselves.

The training session given in GMV met all the pupils’ expectations.