What equipment is used in the radiotherapy department of Yangquan First People's Hospital

Currently the most advanced tumor radiotherapy equipment --- helical tomotherapy system of Nanjing People's Liberation Army Bayi Hospital, commonly known as TOMO,

TOMO main features:

1) substantially beyond the limitations of traditional radiotherapy (40 cm), can be completed at a time the whole body range (60X160 cm) of the tumor intensity-modulated treatment (for example, the whole body of the bone marrow irradiation, the whole body of lymphatic irradiation).

2) Based on the working principle of inverse CT, TOMO can produce the highest level of intensity modulation, and the complexity of the tumors that TOMO can treat is difficult to achieve with the existing technology, or even impossible to achieve (such as multiple metastases, the whole chest wall, etc., which can greatly improve the cure rate and quality of life for patients with complex cancers, middle and late-stage patients).

3) Low-dose 3D CT scan can be implemented before each TOMO treatment, which can be used to correct the error between the patient's body position, the actual irradiation site, the tumor morphology, and the size of the tumor, so as to ensure the high accuracy of each treatment, and to protect the vital organs and maximize the therapeutic dose at the same time (e.g., the therapeutic dose of hepatocellular carcinoma can be increased from the palliative dose of 50 Gy to the curative dose of 74 Gy). 74Gy of curative dose).