Kodak Announces Enhancements to Dosimetry Package for Its Radiation Oncology CR System

Kodak Announces Enhancements to Dosimetry Package for Its Radiation Oncology CR System

Eastman Kodak Company announced enhancements to a dosimetry package for its computed radiography system for radiation oncology at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting this week.

The dosimetry option for the KODAK 2000RT CR Plus System allows physicists to perform a wide range of beam and IMRT quality assurance (QA) procedures—along with the platform’s existing ability to capture portal localization, verification and simulation images required for radiation therapy patients.

The 2000RT CR Plus System is an innovative all-in-one CR solution for therapy, simulation and dosimetry imaging. The dosimetry package became available in the fourth quarter of 2005. Kodak’s latest dosimetry software includes a new tool that equips physicists to check dose uniformity in a focused area of the QA image. This new capability will be available in the third quarter of 2006.

Colorado Associates in Medical Physics (Colorado Springs, Colo.) was a test site for the dosimetry package. “Conducting QA testing with the KODAK 2000RT CR Plus system offers many advantages: The system produces a high-resolution image in seconds, and it eliminates the need for film processing and the artifacts that can occur. The digital image file is also much easier to store and it can be transmitted directly to our analysis software,” said Greg Gibbs, a medical physicist at the facility.

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