Feel confident in plan delivery performance with immediate alerts and a powerful analysis performed within seconds of delivery.
Instantaneous QA
Analyzes thousands of measurements within seconds
Check machine performance for every treatment and get immediate alert notifications for clinically relevant events. Instantaneous results with saved analysis for future review.
Automatic RTPlan Generation
Scripted automatic recalculation with your TPS*
Directly evaluate clinical impact of delivery differences using your own trusted system. Exports an RT plan file with out of tolerance log file data to calculate the dose of the day on your TPS. *Currently only validated for Eclipse and Pinnacle.
Pre-Treatment QA
Comprehensive treatment delivery analysis done instantly and automatically without need of an external hardware-based solution. Modulation complexity scores allow comparison of competing plans and insight into problematic plan delivery.
Linear accelerators generate log files which correspond to a copy of the irradiation parameters. LinacView automatically analyzes these log files in real time and in the background by comparing them to the planned treatment described by the DICOM RTplan file associated with the beams, for every session and every patient.
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Automatically receive audible alerts, emails or text messages, when clinically-relevant events occur.
Monitor:
• Jaw and Leaf Positions
• Couch Position
• Monitor Unit
• Gantry and Collimator Angles
• Beam Off Latency Time
• Delivered vs Planned Fluence
*Functionality can depend on linac type.
Features
Plan QA for all Varian and Elekta LINACs including Unity and Halcyon™
Evaluate logfile recorded versus planned parameters as well as fluence comparisons
Immediate Notification
Audible alarm in central location or emails/texts to physics staff for clinical event notification.
Powerful Analysis and Easy Installation
Visualize and trend treatment parameters. Predict future machine failures. No specialized computing hardware required.
LinacView is a powerful and versatile tool for logfile analysis. We use the results produced by this software for various applications such as: daily checking of a reference VMAT arc performed on each of our LINACs (for example, to detect when either gantry chain adjustment or leaf motor replacement is required), to investigate a diminished performance in our pre-treatment patient QA, to monitor LINAC performance during each fraction delivered to every one of our patients, to compare, in terms of DVH, the planned treatment and the “delivered” treatment recalculated on our TPS with an RT-plan file exported from LinacView which contains all log file data. For the last use mentioned, we greatly appreciate carrying out these comparisons on our TPS rather than on another TPS. Moreover, I believe that LinacView is a tool which fosters cooperation between manufacturers, medical physics and biomedical engineering departments.
LinacView is a great tool to indicate systematic errors, especially when the MLC or jaw position did not align well for several patients. I was able to use this tool to communicate with field service engineers and make a correction for our Linac. I am pleased with the performance of LinacView.
We routinely rely on LinacView in our medical physics department to follow-up and record the correct application of each treatment with every patient. In addition to patient QA, we also depend on LinacView to verify machine QA. Evaluating the logfiles with this software ensures us that the linac is operating correctly and that the data transfer to the linac has functioned properly. LinacView provides substantial benefits in terms of patient care, as deviations from planned treatment can be rapidly detected by means of this valuable cross-check.
"An Investigation of Using Logfile Analysis for Automated Patient Specific Quality Assurance in MRgRT" - View a recording of a 2020 MRL Consortium meeting presentation showing logfile analysis can provide higher throughput and faster patient specific QA feedback to clinicians and physicians.
