技术资助

资助项目

我们支持广泛的技术研究。我们的兴趣包括但不限于以下主题:

Resource-constrained areas
Clinical Evidence/Trials
Cost Effectiveness
Value-Based Care
Operational Studies (reducing infrastructure complexities, reducing clinician burden)

Treatment quality (clinically meaningful metrics), compare to historical
Outcome modeling (NCTP, TCP, etc.)
Automated target contouring
Clinical decision support -- offline or at- console
Deformable image registration visualization
Longitudinal response assessment
Novel approaches pushing the therapeutic envelope (shrinking margins, increasing tumor doses)
Functional adaptation (multi-modality imaging applications using adaptive tools)
Novel use of adaptive tools (eg. rapid plan & treat)

Increasing safety of systems and processes
Error detection and augmentation (treatment planning, data transfer, imaging, treatment delivery)
Decreasing planning and treatment variability
Uncertainty quantification
Assisted plan review
Novel algorithms, benefits and applications
AI agents
Reinforcement learning, continuous or incremental learning
Cognitive AI
Clinical benefits
Outcomes prediction

Use and value of new Varian technologies and solutions
Use of SBRT, especially for oligometastatic disease
Comparative and cost effectiveness studies (e.g., RT vs non-RT modalities)
Clinical studies in precision medicine, incorporating genomic and/or radiomic information into Varian systems
Role of radiotherapy as an immune system modulator
Evaluation of novel applications of radiation using linear accelerators for non- oncologic diseases (functional SRS, pain, OCD, etc)