Clinical Applications

The Novalis Tx™ radiosurgery platform offers a wide range of treatment options for a large number of indications:

The Power of Two: The Ability to Treat Multiple Targets

Medical literature supports the use of radiosurgery for a many indications. Radiosurgery is performed by clinicians from a wide variety of surgical and radiation oncology specialties, and is supported by a variety of medical and oncology specialties, including medical physicists, radiation therapists, and technologists specializing in SRS, SBRS and SRT.

Intracranial: Neurosurgeons, Neurologists, Radiation Oncologists
  • Brain Tumors – Benign Disease
    • Meningioma
    • Vestibular Schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma)
    • Pituitary Adenoma
    • Craniopharyngioma
  • Brain Tumors – Malignant Disease
    • Glioma
    • Glioblastoma
  • Brain Tumors – Metastatic Disease
    • Lung
    • Melanoma
    • Breast
    • Other
  • Brain Tumors – Pediatric Targets
    • Ependymoma
    • Hypothalamic Hamartoma
  • Brain – Functional Disease
    • AVMs
    • Trigeminal Neuralgia
    • Seizure Treatment – Thalamotomy, Corpus Callosotomy
Spine: Spine Surgeons, Orthopedic Oncology Surgeons, Radiation Oncologists
  • Gliomas
  • Sarcomas
  • Spinal Metastases
  • Paraspinal Tumors
Extracranial Non-CNS
H&N-EENT: Opthalmologists, ENT Surgeons, H&N Surgeons
  • Melanoma
  • Glomus Jugulare
Lung: Pulmonologists, Thoracic Surgeons
  • Non Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Pancreas & Liver: General surgeons
  • Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  • Liver Metastases
Prostate: Urologists
  • Prostatic Adenoma
Musculoskeletal: Spine Surgeons, Orthopedic Oncology Surgeons
  • Sarcomas

During a typical day, a site can perform dozens of fractionated treatments and two to four single-fraction treatments. With highly flexible treatment modalities, Novalis Tx enables single stage, hypo- and hyper-fractionated treatments, as well as treatment with circular beams, conformal beams, dynamic conformal arcs, and IMRT.

Novalis Tx provides diversified treatment possibilities, giving you the power to provide personalized treatment for each patient.

Read more about how Varian Linacs and Varian/BrainLab customers developed techniques used in radiosurgery bibliography of clinical and technical journal publications.

 

Contact Varian Oncology

Varian Radiosurgery
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Fax: 1.650.493.5637
E-Mail: ca@varian.com

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