510(k) clearance for Picker's ACQPLAN :
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The FDA has cleared Picker International's ACQPLAN three dimensional radiation therapy planning (RTP) system for marketing in the US. The device calculates treatment dose in monitor units and can also be used with the company's ACQSIM CT simulator, eliminating the need to transfer CT simulation images to remote RTP workstations. With the integrated ACQPLAN/ACQSIM system, the patient only needs to be scanned for around two minutes, long enough to acquire basic datasets. The whole simulation and three-dimensional RTP process is then carried out using this "virtual" CT data. This method increases patient's comfort as well as CT scanner throughput hence reduces costs, said Picker.