Although film measurements have been used for quality assurance of the tracking system, they cannot evaluate the. The synchrony tracking primarily compensates the heart motion caused by the respiratory movement. Using external markers in conjunction with diagnostic xray images, synchrony helps guide the robotic arm to move the radiation beam in real time such that the beam always remains aligned with the target. The synchrony respiratory tracking system of the cyberknife robotic radiosurgery system accuray, inc. Our synchrony respiratory tracking system enables radically precise, highly effective nonsurgical treatments for lung cancer regardless of tumor complexity and location. For lessdefined lung targets, fiducial markers may be used to identify target position. Evaluation of tracking accuracy of the cyberknife system using a webcam and printed calibrated grid.
Radixact with synchrony can track welldefined lung targets directly without fiducial markers. The cyberknife system with the synchrony respiratory tracking system is the only radiosurgery system in the world that identifies tumor position throughout the treatment and synchronizes treatment delivery to the motion of the tumor throughout the respiratory cycle. Synchrony cyberknife respiratory compensation technology. Accurays xsight lung tracking system gains clinical. View online or download respironics bipap synchrony service and technical reference manual, provider manual. Tracking accuracy was later analyzed using the system log file and was found to be close to our. Evaluation of the accuracy of the cyberknife synchrony. According to the company, by working seamlessly with accurays cyberknife system and synchrony respiratory tracking system, xsight lung tracking is the only system that uses the bodys soft tissue to directly track targets with radiosurgical accuracy. Pdf evaluation of tracking accuracy of the cyberknife. Accurays lung sbrt treatment with cyberknife provides realtime respiration tracking for unmatched precision. Other techniques require patients to hold their breath during treatmentcyberknife uses the synchrony respiratory tracking system to follow tumor movement even while you breathe. The cyberknife has been recently upgraded with a realtime respiratory tracking and compensation system called synchrony. Synchrony with respiratory modeling on the radixact system track treatment target tracking. The accuracy of the cyberknife synchrony respiratory tracking system srts is considered.
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